Word: midweekly
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Still, when the tender offer surfaced, some Studebaker directors urged the board to advise stockholders to reject it. At midweek, Studebaker's directors slipped into Room 1501 of Chicago's O'Hare Airport Inn to debate that matter. They voted to offer the outsider two seats on the board if he succeeded in buying the 500,000 shares. Should Studebaker's owners sell? "Shareholders should decide for themselves," said Chairman Guthrie...
...different backgrounds, but it stemmed largely from the new mayor's unmistakable determination to bring a semblance of order and responsibility into the city's labor relations-a determination that Quill saw as a clear-cut threat to his power. Indeed, Quill wound up in jail at midweek for defying a restricting injunction...
...week, Lyndon Johnson remained in insulated silence at the L.B.J. Ranch. Suspense and hopeful anticipation built up. Then, in a spectacular series of midweek revelations, the shroud of mystery lifted. In a characteristic stroke of showmanship, the President had dispatched a flying squad of U.S. officials all over the world to discuss the prospects for peace talks on Viet...
...Effective. Perhaps. But there was little doubt last week that much of the credit for the successful rendezvous belonged to casual Wally Schirra, who, at 42, is the oldest astronaut flying. It was his cool and seasoned performance during the abortive Sunday launch of Gemini 6 that made the midweek triumph possible. Had he panicked and pulled the Dring ("chicken switch") that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston docking...
...Lift from Science. All the attacks and polls also nudged the hitherto disdainful De Gaulle into more campaigning. At midweek he reversed an earlier decision to fill all but eight minutes of his allotted two hours of television cam paign time with classical music and documentary films. This week le grand Charles himself will take to the tube twice. Even the scientists gave his belated campaign an extra lift last week as the first French satellite-a 92-lb. candy-striped "bonbon called A-l-soared into victorious if not quite perfect orbit from the Algerian Sahara...