Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incurred the displeasure of President Eisenhower, the McClellan "rights bill" was unacceptable to labor, and the original Kennedy measure was unsatisfactory to conservatives. No doubt the House will make a few changes, and more steps will be involved in a reconciliation between the House and Senate, but the present form is, for various reasons, fairly close to what the President must eventually sign or veto...
Like most legislation, the present bill has been dictated more by political considerations than what would be ideal. It has all of the defects pointed out by President Eisenhower--inadequate control of secondary boycotts and "blackmail" picketing as well as its failure to define the relative positions of the National Labor Relations Board and the states--but it is a bill, and a reasonably satisfactory one. It has been buffeted by the amendments of McClellan, whose position in Arkansas depends to some degree on his keeping unions out of the state. It has been attacked as too weak...
...addition, all three of the armed forces will need a highly trained core of "electronics tacticians" to operate the missile fleet, MacIntyre noted. This core--to be composed of career men, rather than draftees--will enable the Defense Department to employ less manpower than it does at present...
Arriving in the wake of Fidel Castro's screaming motorcade and impenetrable entourage of security officers, Luis Munoz Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico, signed in quietly yesterday at the Statler-Hilton with only a handful of personal friends and secretaries in attendance. However, when the glamour of the present hardens into the more searching mold of history, Munoz will surely have as good, and probably a far better claim to fanfare than Castro. Munoz is the creator of a new and unique political relationship within the old bonds of Federalism. He was the driving force behind Puerto Rico's achievement...
...economics of living are still Puerto Rico's greatest problem. Unemployment has decreased over the last few years, Munoz explained, but not as much as is ideally desirable. At present, 12 per cent of the labor force is unemployed...