Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether their revolt succeeds or fails, New York's Jake Javits is already issuing the call for a party meeting on domestic issues similar to the 1943 Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...
...space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting man? NASA will carefully choose a team of volunteers, all of whom will get similar training. As the big day approaches, the first man will be selected from this group; the others will make subsequent flights...
...Rock, the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld city ordinances requiring the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as a corporation, to produce its records of membership and contributions. The 5-2 decision ignored a U.S. Supreme Court finding that protected the N.A.A.C.P. in a similar case in Alabama, and slapped down as unwarranted the N.A.A.C.P.'s contention that public disclosure of records might lead to "harassment, economic reprisals and even bodily harm...
...Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...
...Having already rounded up most of TV, the western will also try to hog-tie Christmas. George Montgomery and wife (Dinah Shore) take the holiday season's first crack at turning Dickens' Christmas Carol into horse opera (see below for a similar effort on G.E. Theater...