Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like Golfer Hogan rarely has a bad day, rarely plays two bad holes...
...meeting, the first one of its kind, will initiate a project "for studying the sources of international tension in so far as they arise out of social life and personality disorders...
...corporations); he wants the Taft-Hartley Law repealed, and a revised Wagner Act put in its place. He asked again for limited economic controls; proposals that have been futilely batted around in Congress for well over a year. And the President wants plenty of legislation in other domestic fields--Social Security, conservation and resource development, health, education, civil rights, and housing...
...population and every individual has a right to expect from his government." Truman wants to extend and correct this program. Part of his message was directed at the short-range danger of inflation and threats of a recession, but more significant was the long-range schedule of needed social legislation, proposals that will be fought all the way by the "gluttons of privilege" he blasted in the fall campaign...
...broad on lines of social goals have been stated by the Chief Executive. No one can expect the Eighty-First. Congress to fill these outlines completely. Important advances will surely be made in some areas, and the President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just...