Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, pleading financial strain, Fowler resigned from the Treasury to return to his Washington law practice. When Dillon announced in the fall that he, too, planned to step down, Johnson wanted his old friend Donald C. Cook, president of the American Electric Power Co., to succeed Dillon. But Cook turned the President down (TIME, March 19), and Lyndon turned hopefully to Fowler...
...shimmers with tension in the crowded room. All eyes are focused on the action at the tables. The players hunch over the board, sweating with strain; and when they leave, whether in victory or defeat, their hands shake for minutes...
...Strain & Drain. In theory, such a move could quickly relieve the U.S.'s monetary migraines. The U.S. now has $96.9 billion worth of foreign investments and other assets: that is nearly double the $56 billion of foreign holdings in the U.S. American assets abroad range from giant factories to such enterprises as a mink farm recently opened in Korea, a ski lift run by two young expatriates in Berlin, and the two largest ad agencies in Brazil. World business has become so intertwined that European holdings in the U.S. are about as great as U.S. holdings in Europe. Such...
...Dear Heart thudding along. Thud it does, because it lacks the tough, painful insights that made Marty's small world loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...
Teachers Who Teach. The strain is so great that Medsker foresees a major decision within five years on whether the junior colleges will continue to perform both academic and vocational functions. He argues strongly for continuing the present system because a combined institution is more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since...