Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds are allowed to gather in the Chilean sanctuary of Democracy...
...League, alumni are still alumni. When they got tired of seeing their teams beaten, Yale and Harvard alumni went to work to interest academically qualified players in their respective alma maters. They operated under restrictions. Only an estimated 3% of the best U.S. high school players can meet the Ivy schools' scholastic requirements. No financial help can be promised. But the lure of an Ivy-school degree is an important recruiting tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year, 13 had either played...
...Cleveland meeting was prompted by the proposed merger of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, which are going ahead with their studies, already have in hand a report on the operational aspects of a merger. It was Delaware & Hudson President William White and fellow railroaders who called executives of the seven roads together at Cleveland to discuss what steps to take if the Central-Pennsy merger goes through. The most obvious: meet merger with merger...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...
...competition between Bethlehem and Youngstown, depriving steel consumers of alternate sources of supply. To the companies' arguments that they could not compete with U.S. Steel, Weinfeld replied that this was "not persuasive in the light of their prior activities, their financial resources, their growth and demonstrated capacity to meet the challenge of a constantly growing economy." Both companies, he noted, had bettered their position in the industry in the last five years: Bethlehem increased its capacity by 30.7%, Youngstown by 31.4%. Thus, both are financially able to expand further...