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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Maintenance. In Chicago, Conrad Hernbrott's estranged wife let the air out of his automobile tires, took the tubes out of his TV set, locked him out of his room and changed the lock, posted a sign in the corridor of his rooming house reminding him that he hadn't made his support payment...
...General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting the strike by injunction for 80 days to provide a cooling-off period. He named a three-man committee of labor experts to write the fact-finding report required by law (see box) before the injunction...
...present no major institution appears ready to adopt the four-quarter program. From secondary and prep schools to colleges, parents and students seem set against it; and where the pressure of admissions permits the institution to dictate terms, the problem of fixed income from endowment and of success based on an established formula seem insurmountable...
This fall marks only the second season of Columbia soccer in the past 44 years. The Lions met half of the Ivy League soccer squads last fall, and will play the other teams this year, with possible admission to the League set for 1960. In 1958, its first season of varsity status since 1915, Columbia posted a 1-6-2 record. Earlier in the present campaign, the Lions bowed to C.C.N.Y., the best team in the New York area, 5 to 2, and lost to Pratt, perennially in the middle of the Metropolitan League standings, by a 3-1 margin...
Felt said that the main obstacle blocking any such program is the limitation set on the number of free tickets by Ivy League contract. The HAA already makes complimentary passes available to many adult groups, such as officials of Cambridge, Boston, and the State House...