Word: incurability
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When Strobel's name was proposed by the Republican National Committee, Ed Mansure looked up his record and, duly impressed by his professional qualifications, offered Strobel the job. "My wife thinks I'm crazy," said Strobel, who will incur a pay cut from his present $100,000 or more to $14,800, but he did not hesitate to accept. Said he: "Perhaps I can partly pay back this country for what it has done...
...conform than to take an individual stand, and now it is easy to blame conformity on the so-called "climate of fear." University administrators, men of the academic world themselves, say that they would not fire this or that professor were it not for the dangerous publicity they would incur by retaining him. Condemning the public and public opinion, yet capitulating to it, these men find a ready excuse for the conformity which they deplore in the abstract...
...devised a method to save fellow Bellboys from the crushing Lamont Library fine system. By placing their books in a wooden box the night before, Lowell men can wake up at 11 a.m. and find themselves only 10 to 25 cents poorer. Without the service, late risers might incur losses as high as two dollars per book...
Willie Farrell was not the only union man to incur the displeasure of his fellow workers. Sixteen members of the confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions who, for one reason or another, had refused to observe a nationwide one-day "token strike" were sentenced to social ostracism in their own plants. At Derbyshire's Staveley Iron Works, Worker Ron Hewitt was forced to take his meals alone. For the next six months, Ron's 300 co-workers will not even give him a "good morning" when he comes to work. Their only communication with him during his five...
...Athletic Association wants Saturday games because it feels freshmen athletes should incur as few class cuts as possible. But experience with other sports--the freshman baseball teams often play two afternoons a week--shows that any student can have his labs or classes adjusted so that they do not fall on a Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. The junior varsity, whose players have a heavier schedule than the freshmen, are still able to play Friday afternoon games...