Word: still
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisions on Convair projects ($4,000,000 of ARPA's $500 million budget). Among hard-pressed military missilemen, Critchfield raised hopes of at last finding a boss who knows his way around with two kinds of rare birds: missiles and scientists. Critchfield knows his way around in still another way that should stand him in good stead in the Pentagon: he is a shrewd and lucky poker player with a tested wizardry for figuring the odds on any hand. "You're better off," said a poorer but wiser Convair colleague, "to give him your paycheck to start...
Last week agents of the American Automobile Association and the Georgia State Department of Commerce sat down for still another in a long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting...
Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...
...Britain, France and Japan agreed that the time has come for thriving nations to scrap discriminatory trade restrictions against the U.S. born of postwar dollar shortages. In many cases the changes were more psychological than real, for tariffs or market conditions will continue to exclude what quotas do not. Still, the U.S. was only hoping to boost exports 10%. As for Washington's appeal for other volunteers to shoulder a bigger share of foreign aid costs, the echoing silence was loud...
...wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out of hundreds more. He helped to reduce the once-powerful Baath Party to impotence,* slashed the number of Damascus dailies from 24 to a docile seven. But for all his secret agents, Serraj was still unable to dissuade his own country from its conviction that the union meant only economic disaster. Last month President Nasser assigned that mission to Soldier Amer, one of the U.A.R.'s three Vice Presidents, and a devoted lieutenant of Nasser's for some 20 years...