Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Paris last week in a chastened mood. Britain and France were sulky with the touchiness of those who know they have been found wrong, still think they were right, but are anxious to get back in everybody's good graces. With Russia putting on a show of brutal power in Hungary, the smaller nations had had a terrifying glimpse into a future in which the three senior partners might be split. There was sudden new interest in NATO's defenses, and an urgent search for ways to make...
...knew about Gertrude Stein," he recalls, "but I wasn't important enough for her to know me. About the only important person I knew was Jo Davidson, and he was willing to look at me only because I knew the girl he was going to marry-met her on the boat going over...
...presenting the report to the Council, Larry R. Johnson '58 said that the plans for the building were minimal, rather than maximal. He said his committee had initially favored the inclusion of a smaller experimental theater, but that this proposal had not met with the approval of University officials. After Council discussion, however, it was informally decided to include the small theatre in the recommendation...
Demand for new cars was so brisk that there were already shortages of many models. Henry Ford said that his new Mercury "has stimulated unprecedented customer demand which cannot be met for some considerable period of time despite rapidly increasing rates of production." As a result, Ford was upping its goal from 28% to 31.5% of the 1957 market...
When the 3,500 delegates to the 61st Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers met in Manhattan last week, their avowed theme was the "new dimensions" beckoning the modern businessman. But most of the N.A.M.'s attention was devoted to such perennial targets as union activity ("encroachment on individual rights") and big government ("The termites of welfare statism eat out the foundations of our society"). When it came to exploring the new dimensions, most of the talent was imported...