Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Strike? Grim warnings against Lechín's course were sprinkled all through a detailed report released by Stabilizer Eder last fortnight. He cautioned that the "miracles" of stabilization could be wiped out by a round of raises now. He caustically criticized the law that bars firing of surplus employees. In the last five years, said Eder, the number of workers in the government-run mines increased 20% while production dropped 50%. The report's blunt summary said that if Bolivians expect U.S. aid to continue at its present level (about one-third the government budget...
...three-hour conference with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Humphrey soon discovered that Nasser knew very little about Eisenhower. He had, he said, read Crusade in Europe. Asked Humphrey: "Have you read President Eisenhower's second inaugural address?" When Nasser replied "No," Humphrey sent round to the U.S. Embassy for a copy, advised Nasser to read "one of the greatest documents for peace ever written." Said Humphrey: "Eisenhower seeks to dominate no one, and it appears to me that anyone who really wants peace in the world can find it with the President of the United States...
...Force Master Sergeant Harold Ridgley was considered one of the weakest of the lot. Hardly anyone noticed the grim, taciturn noncom as he plodded around Lancashire's seaside Formby links. But when all his countrymen were gone, Ridgley was still in the running. When he finished the semifinal round last week, just about every spectator on the course was ready to concede him the title...
After that, though, the sergeant was shot. In the final round he played well, but he could not keep pace with Scotland's Reid Jack, 33. Sergeant Ridgley went around the first 18 in par (72). Jack, onetime British Marine commando lieutenant, countered with 69. But the crowd was still with Ridgley, and a spectator tried to help the sergeant by grinding Jack's golf ball into the sun-baked turf. Ridgley was too tired to care. Although the 1957 British Amateur will be remembered for the semifinal known as "Harold's Homicide," Harold Ridgley lost...
When Motorola installed a round-the-clock cafeteria in its Chicago plant, it was pleasantly surprised that entire families patronized it to save money and eat better than at home. Says an executive of a San Francisco firm, which serves a roast-beef dinner for 57?: "You give everybody a $5 monthly raise, and in six months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program...