Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMLET. Instead it is the basic issue of principle which has brought about the longest national steel strike in U.S. history and which last week caused the President of the U.S. to do some head-bumping. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...McElroy, November 1957) keep oozing out of Washington, but they seem fatuous in view of Soviet space performances. With their boasts about the U.S.'s more "sophisticated" space hardware, Washington officials sometimes sound as if they think that U.S. and Soviet rockets are engaged in a beauty contest instead of a race for national prestige, power, and perhaps survival. The plain fact demonstrated by the latest Soviet moon shot, and the shot that hit the moon on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev's visit, is that Soviet rockets are still outperforming the U.S.'s best...
...toward them. Splinters of space programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Defense Department's Office of Research and Engineering. Result: a maze of divided responsibilities in which appalling amounts of time and effort go into switching programs around on organizational charts instead of into making technological headway...
Shaken by the President's intervention, Blough and McDonald agreed to resume negotiations-this time in Pittsburgh instead of New York. Management finally got around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...
...skimping in a lot of little ways-buying cheaper meats, turning out unneeded lights, doling out quarters instead of dollars to their five children-Steelworker Frank Sekula, 41, and his wife Betty have managed to stretch their savings far enough to meet their necessary outlays without piling up any new debts. Betty Sekula, veteran of many strikes, has only a faint trace of bitterness in her voice when she says: "I don't think that either side in this strike is thinking of the betterment of the men. I don't see where we're going...