Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week announced that he had invited Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Ike's host a fortnight ago, to visit the U.S. this spring...
...prowl for a candidate for mayor in next fall's election, Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes-if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support...
Reiner supporters pointed out that the real reason for the cancellation might be the conductor's health: there have been persistent rumors of heart trouble. Despite Reiner's assurance that he would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
...United Steel Workers' Boss Dave McDonald, the coming bargaining with the steelmakers poses a problem. He has to get something for his unionists, but the steelmakers, like the automen last spring, seem in a pretty parsimonious mood. Last week McDonald came out with an idea that he hoped would please his steel workers, and not cost too much for the companies. He suggested a three-months' vacation with pay for each worker every five years. "At current rates." said McDonald, "this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create...