Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. veto of his nomination at the convention. His bold plan put him into the center of the year's toughest scrap, bloodied him up a bit. His troubles started when the Senate toughened his original Kennedy Bill, got grim when the President pushed the far tougher Landrum-Griffin bill through the House. As chairman of the Senate-House conference to resolve the differences between the two measures, he fought a union-side rearguard action against adoption of all Landrum-Griffin's tougher provisions, won enough concessions to avoid an all-out attack by angered labor leaders...
...Last season's Oldsmobile take-off on Broadway's Good News was the gentlest of kisses-and entertaining theater to boot. The songs were subtle, the plot made humorous sense, the verve of the Broadway original was still there. But this year's trend, possibly reflecting tougher competition, is more toward the hard sell. The 1960 Olds version, like the Buick show, hollers sell from introduction to finale. Both this year and last, its choreography was handled by Carol (Pajama Game) Haney; this year, as last, its stars are Bill (Me and Juliet) Hayes and Florence (Fanny...
Even if the school has only one or two "highly gifted" students (the top 3% nationally), they should have college work under the Advanced Placement Program to enter college ahead of the game, and there take tougher courses. And the "academically talented" should never get a chance to loaf. As college material, they should take a minimum 18 courses with homework (at least 15 hours weekly), including four years of English, four years of math, three years of science, four years of one foreign language (for "mastery") -plus required courses...
...what Ike accomplished in throwing his weight into the labor-bill battle may be a lot tougher to achieve in the farm fight. For one thing, the labor bill that Ike backed seemed to offer effective remedies for the problem of labor racketeering. There is reason to doubt that Ezra Benson is offering an effective solution to the surplus-wheat problem, which follows the general line of the corn program he got written into law last year. Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned...
...find a better way to face competition if the U.S. is to keep its place as a powerful air nation. The most obvious solution would be Government subsidy, but most airlines themselves admit that this is a last resort. What they want is for the U.S. to show a tougher stand in route bargaining and in enforcing current agreements. In the next five years the jets will force a revamping of virtually all of the 54 bilateral agreements between the U.S. and other nations. Unless the U.S. trades much more shrewdly with foreign airlines, U.S. flag carriers...