Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scare rumors aid the scare mongers. Senator John McClellan reports that many of his constituents actually fear that the tractors will be used for "military purposes," a less-sophisticated version of the same hysteria that prompts Time to label the tractors "bulldozers"--an ogre word with a vaguely military sound. The National Review hints that Castro's tractors will immediately be shipped to Red China. And the darkese suspicion of all was voiced by a reader in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, who said that henceforth American foreign policy would be directed by Walter Reuther...
WITH this week's issue, TIME'S subscribers will note the appearance of a new white address label on their copies. This is a small outward sign that a new electronic-tape subscription processing system, developed at TIME'S subscription-service division in Chicago, has gone into operation. The tape is geared in with a new highspeed label printer (131,000 an hour) that provides greater legibility and also shows readers when their sub scriptions expire. Month and year of expiration are now printed on the first line of the strip...
...agreed with Shriver that "there are many ways of serving the purposes of the Peace Corps without a frontal attack bearing a specific label." Programs sponsored by groups such as industries and labor unions could provide much of the manpower needed to aid foreign countries, she pointed...
That was all the delegates to the conference wanted, and although their final plan for a loose Congolese federation hardly merits Kasavubu's label of "resounding success," it does at least recognize on paper some trying realities...
...Road Ahead. Among his fellow economists, Walter Heller is usually tagged as a "liberal," but he departs so often from what used to be liberal cliches that the identity tag is a bit blurred. A more descriptive label, one that he applies to himself, is "pragmatist." That is the vogue word among economists today, the term that most of them use to label themselves and one another. When economists call themselves pragmatists, they mean that they are the opposite of dogmatists, that they are wary of broad theories, that they lean to the cut-and-try approach to public problems...