Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again, and it is considered a must in the Southwest; Kennedy voted against it once, is prepared to do so again. Restrictive labor legislation is in the works; Kennedy, a member of the labor-investigating McClellan committee, of which brother Bob is chief counsel, is against any such harsh measure as a federal right-to-work law, but probably would support corrective legislation, e.g., a tightening up, with punitive clauses, on the accounting of union pension and welfare funds. Extension of reciprocal trade will be an issue; Kennedy is all for it. So will foreign aid; Kennedy is an effective...
...Harsh Fact. "The trouble is," said former President Herbert Hoover in Manhattan, "that we are turning out annually from our institutions of higher education perhaps fewer than half as many scientists and engineers as we did seven years ago. The greatest enemy of all mankind, the Communists, are turning out twice or possibly three times as many as we do. Our higher institutions of learning have the capacity to train the recruits we need. The harsh fact is that the high schools are not preparing youngsters for the entrance requirements which must be maintained by our institutions training scientists...
...committed herself to a murderously difficult concert of eight operatic arias. All week she had kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio, which she did in harsh, mediocre style. With two arias from Bellini's I Puritani, Callas hit her stride, rippling down her famed arpeggios, her tone pure and vibrant...
...National Education Week, but from President Eisenhower on down, most Americans were in no mood for applauding the nation's schools and colleges. Stunned into sudden-and at times, hysterical-awe of Soviet science, they could scarcely find words harsh enough to say about themselves or their campuses. "Throughout the entire country," noted Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk, "the subject of education has moved out of the quiet of the classroom into the arena of bitter controversy...
With a sigh of relief, the U.S. aircraft industry learned last week that the Defense Department would pay its bills after all. To 28 major airframe and missile contractors, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent a telegram rescinding the harsh 25% reduction in progress payment on contracts that recently threw manufacturers into a tail spin (TIME, Oct. 28). In its place, the Defense Department announced a new, less rigid series of payment "targets," under which the planemakers would get at least 80%, and possibly 90%, of their costs for work in progress...