Word: stopgaps
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...ponderous, unnamed 280-mm. gun (17 miles), carried by a two-cab hook-and-ladder-style truck, which lofts a 605-Ib. shell with high accuracy. A stopgap weapon that first appeared in 1953, it is so cumbersome that it is used for little else than military parades...
...current federal aid program, a 1961 stopgap measure, ends June 30. Fortunately, an administration bill sponsored by Harrison Williams of New Jersey was easily passed last week in the Senate and faces good prospects in the House...
...also voted to submit to the administration the use of the Field House, which was recently closed because of confusion about its proper function. Termed a "stopgap measure to keep the Field House operating until Radcliffe's Fourth House is built," the recommendation reserves the second floor for the exclusive use of artists. The Field House itself may still be reserved for parties and meetings, as it could be previously, but only the night watchman will have access...
...separate opinion-later endorsed by Grace-David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and two other COMAP members argued that the incentives and grants are only "stopgap" remedies. In the long run, "encouragement of private enterprise, local and foreign, must become the main thrust of the Alliance." The U.S., says the Rockefeller group, "should concentrate its economic aid program in countries that show the greatest inclination to adopt measures to improve the investment climate, and withhold aid from others until satisfactory performance has been demonstrated...
...harried Van der Beugel. who had already cut his payroll by 2,000 men. was not up to any more slashing and one cold morning early last week he submitted his resignation to KLM's prestigious board of directors. As a stopgap measure, flinty KLM Board Chairman Franciscus den Hollander, former boss of the Dutch railroads, took over. In the first 24 hours of Den Hollander's regime, three longtime executive vice-presidents resigned. The KLM board is expected to go outside the company to find a new president, but with the example of able Ernst...