Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smaller They Come. With all this in mind, businessmen and economists are soberly reconsidering their timetables for recession. Many who had originally predicted that the recovery would run through most of next year now figure that it will run out of steam in early 1963, or even in late 1962. Chase Manhattan Bank Economist William Butler expects a downturn to occur by Christmas. General Electric Co., which had expected that the economy would go on improving till next spring, is now operating on the assumption that it will begin to top out in this year's last quarter...
...monster (and other movie monsters to come) include a pious aside to parents: "In the opinion of reputable authorities, [these models] actually perform a valuable service for the child." When "certain fantasies" center about such a model, instead of being "improperly focused," they are released "in the manner of steam escaping through the safety valve on a radiator...
...Britain can lick them all if we want to," boasts Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, ebullient, white-haired chairman and managing director of England's big Leyland Motors group. Sir Henry, third-generation head of a Lancashire company that started with steam wagons and now concentrates on buses and trucks, wants to. Last year, Leyland's bought up (for $51 million) floundering Standard-Triumph International, which makes the Triumph cars. Now, bracing against Britain's possible entry into the Common Market, he has acquired Associated Commercial Vehicles, which specializes in trucks. That makes him Britain...
President Lowell, wanting seniors to get to know each other tried to induce them to live in the Yard under his new senior dormitory system, Accordingly, Yard halls had modern plumbing and steam heat installed, and seniors were permitted to group together by entries. Hints of Lowell's House system, begun during the Depression, were beginning to emerge from all the President's changes in undergraduate living conditions...
Commencement week picks up steam today as the many events Wednesday and the solemn exercises Thursday approach. The University offers open house and tours at its new buildings constructed under the Program for Harvard College...