Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the new Student Council constitution falls far short of perfection, it eliminates some of the basic problems that plagued the old document. As a slight improvement it deserves support in today's referendum...
...fill a potential political hot spot-controlling domestic gold and silver operations-the Treasury Department turned to a slight, studiously nonpartisan monetary whiz, James Dewey Daane (pronounced Dane), 43. Daane, a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, learned his banking in 21 years with the Federal Reserve, joined the Treasury near the end of the Eisenhower years and smoothed the transition from Republican to Democratic monetary policies. As Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he will need all his neutrality as he copes simultaneously with demands from Western silver producers that the Treasury raise its pegged price...
Bundling together all the prospects for 1962-a big increase in defense steel ordering, slight gains in housing and capital-goods spending-steelmakers are optimistic, but not exhilarated. Steel is still the nation's basic industry, but its softness at a time when the economy as a whole is much more solid suggests that it is a lot less basic than it used...
Using the Harvard name also draws customers. "People the idea of Harvard students doing their party," assistant manager Dean R. Johnson '64 explained. "I think there's a slight amount of prestige involved...
Cole (TIME cover, Oct. 5, 1959) is generally rated a slight favorite over Knudsen in the presidential stakes. A rare combination of engineer and articulate salesman, Cole learned his engineering at General Motors Institute, the company engineering school, was chief engineer at Cadillac and then Chevrolet before he took over Chevy in 1956. He directed the development of the Corvette sports car and the Corvair air-cooled, rear-engine compact. Last year, introducing Detroit to the sales potential of pizazz with his chromed-up Monza, Cole whipped Chevy to record sales of 1,730,000-the most...