Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside Room 832 of Washington's Shoreham Building the carpet had not yet been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
With supreme confidence, as if contrary views had been considered by him and then rejected, De Gaulle last week laid out his winter schedule. Nikita Khrushchev would arrive in Paris March 15 for a state visit expected to last as much as two weeks. After that, in April De Gaulle would accept the Queen's invitation to visit Britain, and perhaps follow it with a boat trip to the U.S. and Canada. Mid-May, therefore, might be appropriate for the summit. All this was a far cry from Eisenhower's original proposal for a December summit. But without...
According to Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment, the proposal would have removed approximately 60 students from their jobs. Although Burke called the positions some of the best and highest paying in the University, he felt that his office could easily find other jobs for those students laid...
...Faculty committee proposal to establish a department of geography has been laid aside "for the moment," Dean Bundy disclosed yesterday, because funds sufficient to support the envisioned department are not available...
...Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Cadillac reported their best October in history; Rambler (up 21.5% over last year), Dodge (up 57%), Buick (up 72%), Mercury (up 99%) and Lincoln (up 100%) were off with a roar. But with plants shut down around the U.S. and better than 206,000 auto workers laid off because of the steel strike, industry production volume dwindled to 67,195 cars last week, about 50% of production during the middle of October...