Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the President can supply the leadership needed to move forward on all these fronts, to translate policy and orders into action. In his Paris performance Dwight Eisenhower has shown that brand of leadership; in his future Washington performance nothing less will...
...tabbed as either knowing your subject or not knowing it. I've sought to know my subject." Last week Wilbur Mills, 48, stepped into the powerful job of chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which shapes the nation's tax legislation. The move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still it was a reward that no colleague could deny Wilbur Mills. In 19 years as a Congressman, Lawyer Mills thoroughly studied his economics, got a reputation as a spokesman for low-income groups and small business...
...Nuovo, the Christian Democrats passed by a long queue of Neapolitans lined up to receive the mayor's usual Christmas distribution of free spaghetti and canned tomatoes. As a political argument, it was hard to beat. Groaned a Christian Democratic politician: "It looks as if Lauro wants to move from misgoverning a city to misgoverning the nation...
...they found just one adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night and day on a cost-be-damned basis, hundreds of bulldozers move 65,300 cubic yds. of earth every 24 hours, hurrying to completion the airplane-shaped city designed by Architect Lucio Costa...
COPPER CUTBACKS are planned by Kennecott Copper Corp., No. 1 U.S. producer, to boost prices that have slumped to 27?Ib. from 54¼ last year. Kennecott will trim domestic output 12%, or 3,800 tons a month, by slowing operations in Utah, New Mexico, Nevada. Move follows 3,500 tons a month cutback by Phelps Dodge Corp., 3,000 tons a month by Anaconda...