Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep bumping into a stone wall? asked New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson of fellow Senate Democrats one afternoon last week. Clint Anderson's stone wall was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, whose strong position on issues back home loomed higher and higher, even while Ike himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that...
...Helicopters. It was an odd kind of war, with little bloodshed. Several army outposts abandoned their stations before a terrorist hove in sight. Company and platoon units, with no radio contact with higher headquarters, were out of touch for days at a time. Often Laos' creaky, eight-plane air force could not get supplies to isolated garrisons, and more than one slightly wounded trooper died at a monsoon-soaked outpost for the lack of a road or airstrip to get him out to a doctor; in all Laos there is not one helicopter. In Samneua-the province in greatest...
...reaches its fullest flower among the political writers and columnists. Many of them buy blocks of space from their publishers, reap tidy subsidiary fortunes by reselling it-at higher rates-to anyone in the market for their wares, which can be either adulation or silence. Among the buyers are minor government officials, politicians and industrialists. The national railroads are steady customers, happy to pay for the privilege of keeping minor train wrecks out of the news; press faultfinding with Pemex rose sharply after the state-owned oil company dropped its annual reporters' subsidy of 9,000,000 pesos...
While sending out bad news to the stockholders in recession year 1958, U.S. corporations voluntarily shouldered a heavier share than ever of the massive costs of U.S. higher education. In its biennial survey of 352 representative companies, the Council for Financial Aid to Education (chaired by Irving S. Olds, former board chairman of U.S. Steel) reported this week that last year's corporate gifts to colleges were up 23.5% from 1956. Unrestricted gifts, the educators' favorite type, led the list with 34% of the total, and even a few red-ink companies kicked in. But the council hopes...
...Wings." Aluminum hydrofoils that lift pleasure craft from the water by creating an upward pressure at speeds of ten knots or higher were introduced by Reynolds Metals Co. and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. The wings, which come in a do-it-yourself kit, increase a boat's speed up to 30%, cut fuel consumption, make for smoother riding. Price: $390 a pair...