Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, the President was most impatient to get on with the missions of personal diplomacy that he felt might lead toward a hardheaded world peace. A polite Eisenhower nudge brought an agreement from France's President Charles de Gaulle to a pre-summit meeting of Western chiefs of state (Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Britain's Macmillan, West Germany's Adenauer) on Dec. 19 in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that lay a summit conference with Khrushchev next spring. Between the Western meeting and the long-heralded summit, Ike planned to make his promised visit to Moscow...
Injunction or no, the unprecedented steel strike badly needed some kind of cooling-off period. Some industry men were talking grimly about a war of attrition that might rage on for an additional six months. The steelworkers were working hard to convince other unions that this was a basic fight for all labor...
...part, had never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant front and lost much public support. Like many a controversy based on principle, the differences were far more apparent than substantial, might well yield to settlement if both sides would make the most of a cooling-off period to try a new approach...
...Conference on American inflation, the School has invited Arthur Burns (former Economic Advisor to the President), the chief lawyer for David McDonald's Steelworkers Union, and Senator Clark of Pennsylvania. In coordinating top-flight outside speakers with its academic program, the Woodrow Wilson School sets an example which might be followed with profit in Harvard College...
...Woodrow Wilson "liberal arts"? some ask. The officials of the School reply that its program not only belongs in a liberal arts college, but is, in fact, one of the most valuable fields of concentration at Princeton. If the School acted merely to coordinate courses for its "members," it might be criticized as disunified. But the Conference and the senior seminar draw together (the various disciplines), and students presumably gain at least preliminary acquaintance with the tools of the social sciences. And, significantly, they "learn by doing," by applying these several disciplines to important public problems...