Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INVOKING Taft-Hartley in the dock and steel strikes, President Eisenhower last week set in motion a device which, despite continuing criticism, has had better than fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
With Election Year 1960 pressing hard, Republicans hope to present to the voters an image of the G.O.P. as the party of peace and prosperity. But hope is one thing, success is quite another, and party images are often based on long-held feelings and fears that remain almost unchanged in the face of current facts. Thus, by 1952, after three wars under Democratic administrations, the G.O.P. had established itself in the popular mind as the party most likely to keep world peace. The seven peaceful years of the Eisenhower Administration have done little to change that image for better...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...addition, Exeter faced two peculiar obstacles, which are perhaps limited to the small group of schools and colleges which enjoy the kind of success Exeter has attained. When a school has 1500 applicants for 250 places, and an educational formula based on multi-million dollar gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really...
...present no major institution appears ready to adopt the four-quarter program. From secondary and prep schools to colleges, parents and students seem set against it; and where the pressure of admissions permits the institution to dictate terms, the problem of fixed income from endowment and of success based on an established formula seem insurmountable...