Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's press conference last week was perhaps the least impressive in his more than five years in office. Asked about reports that he had told friends he thought desegregation should proceed more slowly, the President replied: "It might have been that I said something about slower, but I do believe that we should-because I do say, as I did yesterday or last week, we have got to have reason and sense and education . . . if this process is going to have any real acceptance...
...beam, carries two nuclear reactors and a crew of 148, can make a zippy 30 surface knots. By comparison the Nautilus, first U.S. nuclear sub, displaces 2,980 tons, is 300 ft. long, has a 28-ft. beam, one reactor. The Triton, in fact, is not much smaller and slower than a light cruiser of the U.S.'s San Diego class...
...previous week were running 3% above the 1957 level. Adding to recent gains in manufacturing employment and hours, the Big Three automakers announced plans to recall 182,000 workers to work on the 1959 models. And though the rate of inventory cutback continued in June at a much slower rate, the nation's retailers actually increased their inventories-the first increase by any sector of business...
...four-year July low of 672,000, which is only a two-month supply at current selling rates. (While automakers reduced January-July production from 3,913,043 last year to 2,574,566 this year, six-month sales have gone down at a much slower rate, from about 3,000,000 last year to 2,300,000 this year.) If a strike is called, union plans are to strike one company (most likely candidate: Ford) in hopes that it will buckle and the others will have to follow...
...program started off with the Sonata for Oboe and Piano of 1938, with Michael Senturia '58 as oboist and Norma Bertolami Sapp as pianist. The angular melody of the oboe in the first movement was sharply contrasted to its piano accompaniment. The second movement, much slower and containing a fairly long melody for Hindemith, was marked by extreme clarity, as were all the sonatas...