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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from it. What Reuther and his fellow A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders called for as labor's 1958 platform was 1) higher wages, plus 2) "increased leisure" through shorter work weeks with no pay reduction, plus 3) bigger health, welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
...Higher & Higher. Europe wanted reassurance that the U.S.. despite its vulnerability to Russian nuclear assault-whether by aircraft in the present or ICBM in the near future-would really risk its cities to save Europe if not itself threatened. But if NATO means anything, Europe's safety still depends on the U.S., and will for a long time to come. Without the U.S.'s retaliatory power, Europe would not long be safe on a continent alone with Russia, and Europe knew it. Britain had already made clear its willingness to accept enough IRBMs to stock four bases...
...skill of U.S. diplomacy, all the force of leadership the U.S. could summon, both at the summit conference and thereafter. "Our relations with Europe," said one foreign policy expert last week, "are now entering the acute phase. Europe's bargaining position is very high now and will get higher before it declines...
While applications for the class of 1962 are running considerably higher than last year's, the number of applications for '61 represented a significant increase over the previous entering class, Mrs. Farrington reported. Applicants for the Class of 1960, however, showed only a small increase over the preceding class, she said...
...increase in salary would help maintain high standards, Harris noted, and would attract more men into teaching. Within the next 15 years, he said, institutions of higher learning should double the size of their faculties due to increased enrolments...