Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test-ban conference become an exercise in futility. Lost in the floundering was the U.S.'s sense-making proposal to ban easy-to-detect atmospheric tests (from ground level to 31 miles up)-a proposal (TIME, April 27) that could be put into effect on short notice if the Russians really wanted to start with a workable agreement...
...Rewrite. The great Strunkian theme: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject in outline, but that every word tell...
...industry was obviously in a strong position to weather a short strike. Realizing this, Big Labor was ready to trim its package-wage demands from a reported 15? to 20? an hour to about a dime. But there was little apparent progress in negotiations last week. Company bargainers held fast to their no-raise stand...
...strikers, defying the two-week truce in steel framed by President Eisenhower. Thus did the rank and file put pressure on management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...
...supply and an uninviting tax structure. But it has two overwhelming advantages: a climate for ideas that has been carefully fostered during its 250 years as a U.S. intellectual headquarters, and the opportunity for pleasant living. The Atlantic Ocean is a few miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based companies can grow up, you must have a special climate where people are interested in ideas, where...