Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEELMEN credit him with the major reorganization of Big Steel that eliminated the sprawling semi-autonomous subsidiaries, turned them into divisions of one central corporation that took responsibility for both policy and production. He pushed hard for a standard cost system throughout the company. He expanded its savings plan, whereby the company matches every dollar saved by its nonunion employees (the union turned down the plan) with 50? of its own, and he broadened the incentive program, which now covers 75% of all employees either through cash awards for production ideas or through stock options. Blough, who himself picked...
...years ago Britain's Nancy Mitford wittily divided the social scene into U (for Upper Class) and non-17. Things are not that simple in the U.S., and in Author Packard's scheme there are Real U and Semi-U, both belonging to the college-bred "Diploma Elite"; then there are the "Supporting Classes,'' in turn subdivided into Limited-Success. Working Class and Real Lower (in his definitions, Packard rarely gets much more precise than to say that the Diploma Elite consists of "the big, active, successful people who pretty much run things" ). This structure, asserts...
There is the orang pendek, for instance -a smallish, hairy ape-man who lives (perhaps) in Sumatra. Natives take the orang pendek as a matter of course, and Dutchmen say they have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles...
Long entered John Sealy Hospital Saturday after a semi-secret flight from Baton Rogue, the Louisiana capital, in a National Guard plane...
...Year. Last winter big (6 ft. 3 in., 250 Ibs.), outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly for his talents as an organizer of new schools...