Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walters, a millionaire roadbuilder, banker and natural-gas distributor. Walters is 71, and has twice undergone surgery for malignant tumors, including a 1948 throat operation that cost him his vocal cords. As a result, he cannot speak above a hoarse whisper. There is every likelihood that Walters will step down next year to permit Clement himself to run for the remaining two years of Kefauver's term...
Pressured by the school board, he has agreed to broaden his transfer plan. By a vote of 10 to 1, the school board has directed him to take a racial census of the schools, a step that he had previously resisted. Acting under a new state law, the board plans to redraw school district boundaries to speed integration. Says one board member: "I believe that Willis intends to carry out these proposals. I'm counting on it. He will either carry them out or leave. That's been made clear...
Hard-Riding Polo. Over the next three years, Chairman Wishart will gradually step aside for lean, taciturn James Binger, a onetime lawyer who went into manufacturing because "I wanted to develop my own set of problems to solve." A Yaleman ('38) who plays hard-riding polo on weekends to shuck off the burden of bringing home a full briefcase every night, Binger has already revamped Honeywell's sales approach, placing emphasis on profits rather than on volume. Now he is stepping up international sales (the company has plants in six countries), which so far account...
...machine is the IBM 1410 computer of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Driver Register Service, a little-known Government body set up by an Act of Congress 2½ years ago. It is a step toward a computerized Big Brotherhood that may one day be keeping elaborate tab on everybody...
...retreating one damned step...