Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate or Chowderhead? Even before Rockefeller left Washington in 1955, seasoned New York politicians thought they saw the start of a Rockefeller-for-Something movement. The clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers...
Estimates are that Quemoy can hold out past Christmas unless the Reds drastically step up their bombardment. Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, declared last week that with the start of the monsoon season, the Reds have missed any chance to invade Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from...
...Step. Last week the Arthur Murray empire was busily checking the steps in its sales techniques in the wake of a Denver lawsuit involving a grieving widow whose friends advised her to get out and take Arthur Murray lessons and find some companionship. In four whirlwind months in 1953, Mrs. Myrtle K. White paid $20,640 for lifetime memberships. When Mrs. White came to, her savings gone and dependent on her job in a bakery, she sued Budd Howard, operator of the Denver studio. The court ordered him to give back $15,890, the value of her unused lessons...
...genesis of the group came last winter, Rinzler commented. At that time, a group of sophomores worked together on the House Christmas play, and then formed a play-reading society. From play-reading to actual theatrical production was a natural step, he noted...
...Such a step might even prove a rallying point for the fearful idealists, turning their battle for a public iniquity in the name of private rights into a consistent defense of a traditionally private area of discretion and control. For any attempt to legislate or adjudicate the composition of genuine private schools, as the moral sense of the rest of the nation would require, would set a new precedent in the extension of public power and diminution of personal autonomy...