Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Lawrence, the Newark Star-Ledger and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle raised the possibility of a Cuban blockade, and there was wide agreement with the opinion of Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, that "Castro will, soon or late, have to go." Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky recommended a prompt armed invasion of Cuba by the U.S.: "Certainly, time is wasting. Do we have to stand still until Soviet Russia has established a missile and a submarine base in Cuba...
...Some argued that the Kennedy bill would breach the Constitution by extending federal coverage to firms operating within a single state. Others feared that the Kennedy bill, by raising the employer's minimum wage-tax cost from $42.44 to $53.05 per person for a 40-hour week, would prompt many to lay off unskilled workers and thus swell unemployment...
...Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are largely preventable with prompt penicillin treatment of "strep throat," but take 20,000 lives annually...
...onetime Wall Street broker, Orvil Dryfoos married Sulzberger's first daughter, Marian, in 1941. two years later went to work for his father-in-law. From then on, his rise was prompt and predictable: vice president and Times director in 1954, Times president in 1957. Ever since Sulzberger suffered a stroke three years ago, Dryfoos has been publisher in nearly everything but title...
...order precede any peace conference. Moscow called for talks forthwith and said vaguely that the Laotian belligerents should hammer out their own ceasefire. This could conceivably give time for the Red-led Pathet Lao forces to advance as they did last week (see THE WORLD). The talks would include prompt convocation of the three-nation International Control Commission (Canada, India, Poland) in Delhi and the opening of a 14-nation conference-notably including Communist China-in Cambodia. The U.S. shuddered at the thought of being involved in a prolonged negotiation while the Pathet Lao continued its offensive...