Word: nation
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...physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied tales of the decadent and limp-wristed West...
...guiding principle of the music critic should be to seek out and discover the "internal life" in a piece of music, according to Bernard Haggin, music reviewer for The Nation. In a speech entitled "The Approach to Music," delivered Thursday in Sanders Theatre, he said that "music is made to live by the surprises in composition and changes in harmony and melody" which are created by the author to interest the music lover and to create variety...
Good Sports. The vanguard of earnings from the nation's struck steel companies confirmed estimates that steel had had a record half-year. Inland Steel doubled its earnings for the half to $2.43 a share, but was outshone by the performance of other reporting companies. Allegheny Ludlum raised its half-year profit 802% to a record $3.20 a share, Jones & Laughlin hiked profits 642% to a record $5.31 a share, and Crucible Steel ran up a new record with earnings of $2.22. Seeking to explain the high steel profits, Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams pointed...
...workers in the nation's basic industry spent their days picketing or doing odd jobs at home, the U.S. this week faced another deadline that could shut down a second major industry. With contracts covering 82% of U.S. aluminum-producing capacity about to expire, the top U.S. aluminum makers-Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser-turned down labor's demands for the same wage package that the union failed to get from steel management. Barring a last-minute truce, the United Steelworkers (32,000 aluminum members) and two other unions (28,000 members) were ready to walk out. A stoppage...
...cold war or inflation; it is the recovery of confidence in our own aims and democratic ideals." The challenging words came from the most articulate conservative in U.S. higher education: burly, hard-hitting Henry M. (for Merritt) Wriston, 70, for three decades one of the nation's foremost college presidents (Wisconsin's Lawrence College, 1925-37, and Brown University, 1937-55). Says Wriston...