Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland student paper was not sad to see him go: Tatum's tenure "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate, and an inadequate library became more inadequate." Nor was the North Carolina student paper glad to see him come-"this parasitic monster of open professionalism...
...also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make a four-year-old feel almost grown up. He handles his influence on open minds with care: "There'll be no slapstick and no horror, no matter how innocently presented...
...penitential miles. Bearing crosses and banners, whole families walked together, singing and praying. The young helped the old across improvised bridges and through the sharp stubble of newly sickled wheat. At twelve resting places along the way, prayers were recited in makeshift chapels. That evening Locronan doors stayed open, and big rustic tables were laden with crêpes, bread, butter and cider. Last week the rituals ended with midnight Mass and a pageant re-enacting the life of St. Ronan...
...winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered of the lot, has pledged an all-out assault against make-work when contract talks open this fall. In the oil industry, the American Oil Co. has taken a month-long strike to end featherbedding that costs, it says, more than $8,000,000 a year...
...voters of Little Rock, like the voters of Virginia, have made clear that if there is no other choice, they will not abandon free public education to avoid desegregation. Last week the doors of Little Rock's embattled Central High School swung open again-for the registering of students for the September reopening ordered last month by a federal court. Some 48 Negro youngsters were registered at Central, including five of the nine admitted before Governor Faubus closed the schools last year. Six more applied for admission to other Little Rock schools where Negroes have never been enrolled before...