Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON again welcomes visitors to its building next week, in introductory meetings for the annual winter push for new members. Crimeds will describe the paper's operation and facilities to those who may be interested in participating on the staff or those who wish only to look around...
Carried away by their own enthusiasm, some children worked out in garages with improvised weights and muscle stretchers. The sight of the kids sweating and grunting began to make Muskogee parents feel guilty. Y.M.C.A. classes sprouted for men. Housewives did push-ups in their living rooms. Calisthenics booklets, furnished by an oil company, disappeared from local gas stations. To encourage the school program, doctors offered to give free medical exams. "A kid can be plenty healthy, but still not in decent shape," says Alph Stamphill, an elementary school principal in charge of the city's program. "There...
...computer business is dominated by giants-IBM, Philco, Sperry Rand. A notable exception is an aggressive young Minneapolis firm with the electronic-era name of Control Data. In four years, Control Data has risen from the brink of financial ruin to such strength that on occasion it can even push the big boys around. The formula, explains professorial William C. Norris, Control Data's 50-year-old president, is disarmingly simple: "Aim for a piece of the market and then do a better job than anyone else...
Thanks for the push...
Calculated Leak. Another sign that the heat is temporarily off is Nikita Khrushchev's apparent new willingness to diminish his menaces. At a Kremlin reception, Khrushchev told correspondents that "for the time being, it is not good for Russia and the U.S. to push one another." In a well-planted leak to West German Ambassador Hans Kroll last week, Khrushchev tentatively offered the West a set of modified proposals to end the crisis...