Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter was elected to the first of five terms in Congress. He led 17 members of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid (among them, California's Richard Nixon) on a trip to Europe in 1947, helped clear the way for congressional approval of the Marshall Plan. An early Eisenhower backer, Herter seemed strangely irked when, in 1952, Massachusetts Republicans urged him to run for governor against Democratic Incumbent Paul Dever. Said he: "You're just trying to get me out of Washington." Reason for his discomfiture: he was confident that Ike would be the next President...
Next question: "Would you select the particular field of medicine in which you are now practicing?" Psychiatrists answered with an 85% yes; internists, 82%; surgeons, 81%; obstetricians, 78%; G.P.s, 66%; and pediatricians...
...older employee or cutting him off with a watch, business is pouring $4 billion a year into retirement programs. With the aid of University of Chicago consultants, Bell & Howell has even drawn up a threeyear, preretirement indoctrination program for older employees to help them invest their money wisely, select an area in which to settle down, cultivate hobbies, and new skills for part-time jobs. One of the primary goals of the modern businessman, says G.E. President Cordiner, is to "encourage his employees to live in the world, not just the company...
...copies an hour. Its traffic men plotted split-second schedules of distribution by truck, rail, all available regular airline service, and ten chartered planes. Across the U.S. our own circulation men, including TIME Circulation Director Bernhard M. Auer and Newsstand Managers Mark Slater and W. Stuart Powers, and 100 Select Magazines, Inc. distributors stood by to speed deliveries...
...this subject, the report concludes, "the extent of the freedom that students have to assemble, to select speakers, to discuss controversial topics, even to harry the administration by criticism whether sagacious or puerile, is more likely to be a measure of the maturity of the educational institution and the community that it serves, than a determination of the maturity or immaturity of the student body...