Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today." British Ford's negotiators confessed that they felt like characters in Alice in Wonderland. They could hardly overstate the absurdity of bargaining with scores of union leaders who do not have to consult their membership either before or after an agreement and who are often out of touch with the people they represent. Prime Minister Harold Wilson condemned the strike leaders for imperiling Britain's efforts to build exports and employment. All that has happened at Ford, he said, only provides powerful support for his government's plan to enact laws against wildcat strikes...
...Committee) will hold an open meeting to hear proposals on the role of students in Faculty decision-making on Tuesday evening, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. March 25 in Geological Lecture Room. Representatives of student organizations or individual students who wish to present proposals should get in touch with Professor Merle Fainsod, Chairman of the Committee, before next Tuesday. Professor Fainsod can be reached at the Director's Office. Widener Library on Extension 2401. The Committee will welcome written statements as well as oral presentations...
...entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country that isn't poor...
...other members of the corporation retain the Harvard touch. They are John Dunlop, Wills Professor of Political Economy; Dr. Dana Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services; Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law; Dr. John C. Synder, dean of the school of Public Health; and Francis H. Burr, a member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...Daumier cartoons have a lighter touch: a skinny, knobby-nosed "Narcissus" stares at a fat face in the water; but they also are slightly too perverse to seem funny. Delacroix, standing at the other end of the title of the exhibition, asserts a more serious tone and representational image. His etching of a lion devouring a horse is memorable for the energy of the lines and the laser stare of the lion...