Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...16th Street that evening, some 50 scientists of 13 nations, members of the International Geophysical Year rocket and satellite conference, were gathered at a cocktail party. After the vodka. Scotch and bourbon started to flow, New York Times Reporter Walter Sullivan got an urgent phone call from his paper, hurried back to whisper in the ear of a U.S. scientist. A moment later Physicist Lloyd Berkner rapped on the hors d'oeuvre table until the hubbub quieted. "I wish to make an announcement," he said. "I am informed by the New York Times that a satellite is in orbit...
...used the occasion to set down the legal principles that are the keynote of his conduct in the Little Rock crisis, and that would apply to integration crises to come. Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must...
...still gazed forth as stolidly as ever, but the 40 millions of crisp $1 bills that went into circulation in the U.S. last week were not the old familiar aces. Along with a new Treasury Secretary's signature- the new singles displayed the first design change in U.S. paper money since the Bureau of Engraving and Printing added the Great Seal in 1935. On the green side of the new dollar appears, for the first time on U.S. folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece of 1864 and is imprinted...
Less evident to a nonexpert eye is a difference that will save taxpayers many a dollar. Until recently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed all U.S. currency on flat-bed presses, using moistened paper, a process that took 15 days. Last week's new singles were printed on dry paper on British-made Rotary presses. The new three-day process will substantially trim the wet-printing cost of 1? a bill, and since the bureau makes a lot of money (1,641,488,000 pieces of paper currency in fiscal 1957), the yearly savings will...
...earned its right to growth and has broken through the barrier of obscurity. As President Zens says with determination, "We're in business and people know it now."Marlboro's library, with a small but adequate collection of books, is used both for studying and relaxation. The brown paper covering the shelves in the background is used to protect the books during the summer, when the Marlboro School of Music takes over the campus. Two students chat in Marlboro's snack-bar and canteen, located in the main schoolbuilding, Dalrymple Hall, named after the carpenter who built...