Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S circulation procedures were first mechanized in 1946, when the number of subscriptions started out growing the original manual operation. But 540 keeps a year-round staff of more than 1,000 people to do what the machines cannot. All inquiries, plaudits and complaints are checked and answered personally, although one mistrusting man several years ago fastened his letter to a large shingle, said: "Now try and file this...
...possible to end it on favorable terms, the U.S. has need of a new species of general, to parry a kind of enemy that was not described in the textbooks at West Point in 1917, and whose trucemaking tactics are not to be found in Army Field Manual 27-10 under "Intercourse Between Belligerents" or "Capitulations and Armistices." The U.S. has not grown such a general yet, but a good many generals, late in life, are going through elementary classes. Now that Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall and Clay are in mufti, Mark Wayne Clark has probably had more such political experience...
...Francisco two years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity...
...family tried to escape to Sweden, but the Gestapo caught them and sent them to Auschwitz. There, the SS gassed Cohen's wife and four-year-old son, his parents, his only sister, and about 50 other relatives. Much of the time Cohen had to do the same manual labor as other prisoners; only part of his three years, in a series of concentration camps was spent working as a doctor. Liberated in May, 1945, he weighed 77 pounds...
...statement "a system of schools where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician, banker, industrial executive, labor executive, and manual worker have gone together at age fifteen to seventeen is something that exists nowhere in the world outside of the United States," President Conant makes no attempt to explain why he picks ages fifteen to seventeen. If he believes that the public school should influence the developing minds of future citizens, it would seem that the pupils' earlier years, probably in grammar school, would be more conducive to the class understanding President Conant desires...