Word: planning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management, set about winning over his workers. William Sentner, Midwest boss of the United Electrical Workers, was an avowed Communist, but Symington got along fine with him. Symington wooed and won the workers with a union shop, dues checkoff, union-management committees and a hefty profit-sharing plan...
Unless the Russians start making meaningful concessions at Geneva, the Administration plans to move quietly toward a resumption of nuclear testing in 1960. There will be no "big bang" at year's end to signalize the end of the moratorium; that suggestion has been rejected as "overly flamboyant." There will be no breakoff at Geneva, nor a breakoff from allies; the U.S. is prepared to go along with a British plan for joint U.S.-U.S.S.R.-British underground tests to improve detection techniques. Also, present plans are that the U.S. will bow to the worldwide outcry against radioactive fallout...
Keeping Time. As usual, to make a show of debate, delegates were allowed to nitpick a few details. Thus a Moscow bank clerk complained that the Ministry of Culture was hoarding quantities of furniture, including 224 clocks. Then delegates unanimously approved both the budget and the 1960 plan. After all, everything was subject to change anyway: last year's plan was changed 37 times, and the chief planner himself was replaced...
...last year's seniors, three-fifths plan to study law and were admitted to Harvard Law School. But the School's program, while it requires some research similar to law school work, deals with broad questions, not with specific cases and precedents; and it utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach, not a body of jurisprudence. Out of a class of 45, 12 plan graduate study in such fields as business, Soviet studies, and journalism...
...graduate division is small--only 20 men in each of two classes--and its students are usually drawn from other universities. These students are not future scholars and teachers; they are men who plan an active career in public administration...