Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, wanted the Administration to lead off with Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills's reasoning: the State Department is not popular in the House; starting off with State would emphasize the foreign relations aspects of the trade bill, intensify normal congressional wariness. Starting off with Commerce would put stress on the businesslike and business-benefiting aspects. Presidential staffmen sided with Mills, but Ball refused to yield. The result was a tense stalemate that ended abruptly when the President stepped in and handed down a verdict: Hodges first, then Ball...
...heaviest artillery. This week's lead-off witness, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, is expected to point out that of last year's $15 billion in U.S. imports, $9 billion worth consisted of raw materials that actually helped to make U.S. jobs. Afterward, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg will stress that the Kennedy bill provides for Government "adjustment assistance" to companies, managers and workers who are damaged by trade liberalization. Also going up to testify: Treasury's Dillon, Agriculture's Freeman, Defense's McNamara, and free-trading spokesmen for everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Glenn, like his six fellow astronauts, was chosen for Project Mercury because tests showed a remarkably stable personality under stress. But Glenn has qualities that set him apart even among the astronauts...
Double the Income. Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's government has proposed a ten-year plan to provide many of the needed changes. But to divert the voters' attention from Japan's current political upheavals, Ikeda publicly laid greatest stress on the plan's goal of nearly doubling Japan's per capita income...
...teaching of English, as is no secret, contains problems peculiar to itself. Members of the Department like Reuben Brower, or Monroe Engel, have tended to feel that undergraduate instruction ought, through the study of literature, to stress the development of critical tools--in large part to examine what is being written now. As a whole, the Department has leaned rather to the reverse, to concern itself more and more deeply with the content of the literature itself. In Honors or non-Honors, the effect has often been to engulf the student in as many nice, scholarly distinctions as the teacher...