Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consensus opinion was probably best expressed by William C. Mitchell, teaching fellow in Government, who called Rep. Martin "highly experienced and beloved" but felt that he no longer provided the "imaginative and skillful leadership the Republicans need...
Such reactions to journalism schools have mostly gone out of style with U.S. editors who no longer seem to fly into spike-throwing rages at the notion that the craft of journalism can be taught in any school except the school of pavement-pounding, doorbell-ringing experience. Most papers now prefer to hire the J-school graduate because he does have some practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism...
Scherchen has strong views about U.S. orchestras: they have become so technically perfect that "they no longer risk" experiments in contemporary idioms such as jazz ("I luff der jass"). He has been invited to the U.S. many times, has refused because he was expected to do a whole series of conventional programs ("the Tchaikovsky Pathétique on one concert and Beethoven's Fifth on the next"). Says he: "I do not have to conduct works I don't like. I will not conduct to order...
...decision was a major victory for the pilots, who no longer needed to fear that the greater speed and capacity of the jets would bring pilot layoffs or demotions. It did not satisfy the six American pilots who make up the negotiating team, all of them lower-paid junior pilots. When the representative of the parent A.L.P.A. urged the team to accept a settlement, they ordered him to leave the negotiating talks. Just 14 minutes before the strike deadline, they brought in a dozen more demands, including such fringes as private rooms for all pilots during layovers. The talks collapsed...
...stock, which Standard has issued to buy one company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk cartons, which have held oil for a year. Said Chandler: "This company is in the right place at the right time...