Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at Camp David, the last round of talks got under way as soon as he got home. Again the President laid down to Khrushchev his basic requirement of good faith: Khrushchev must make it plain that Western rights to remain in West Berlin will not be impaired, and he must remove all threats. Khrushchev at last conceded. The details: 1) Eisenhower and Khrushchev would agree in a formal communique to reopen negotiations on the future of Berlin and Germany; 2) Eisenhower would say publicly this week that Khrushchev had withdrawn all cut-off dates and time limits on Western...
...faculty; almost all are Ph.D.s v. an average of 30% in other colleges. He managed to pry $670,-ooo out of the money-strapped Michigan legislature to pay the first year's salaries and maintenance, and with help from some of the country's top scholars laid out a challenging curriculum...
...spun off by big (20,000 students) Michigan State University, long known as an "ag and tech" institution. Last week, at the opening of the new college at Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal: to teach the art of living as well as pure knowledge. Said he to M.S.U.Oakland's first 500 students (all freshmen): "What is success? What is good? What do I want? Where am I going? You are in college to seek answers to those questions...
...steel-primary metals, mining, transportation, fabricated metals and machinery-the August annual rate of personal income was down $3 billion from the July annual rate and $4.5 billion below the June rate. Since the steel strike started last July 15, an estimated 500,000 steelworkers and 155,000 workers laid off in allied industries have lost something like $700 million in wages...
...steel continued to mount. General Electric Co. began laying off 1,400 workers in its heavy appliance manufacturing center at Louisville, said it will have to close down its entire operation employing 11,000 unless the steel strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five...