Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays in his ivory tower...
Roger Blough's upbringing was anything but ivory tower. The son of a poor Pennsylvania Dutch truck farmer, he got his schooling in one-room schoolhouses, spent his free time stoking stoves and cleaning blackboards for $5 a month to help the family get by. He went through high school and Susquehanna University, taught school and coached basketball for three years before he worked his way through Yale Law School, graduating with top marks...
...eleven years, in its anxiety to strengthen their hold on Eastern Europe, Russia has sought to snuff out Berlin's liberty. By their refusal to panic, their stouthearted willingness to risk economic hardship rather than accept subjection, Berliners have won the world's admiration. Today, in the tower of Berlin's City Hall, hangs the "Freedom Bell"-a copy of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, given to Berlin by the people...
...college students-to take grueling jobs in remote mines, lumber camps, construction and railroad gangs. "They arrive at the camps as soft as colleges can make them," says Frontier's muscular principal, Eric Robinson, 33. a onetime McGill University football player. "Most of them are filled with ivory-tower idealism. It's apt to be a traumatic experience...
...last week, clutching a color insert torn from the current issue of Asahi Science Magazine (circ. 90,000), subscribers streamed into Canon Camera Co. service stations in five Japanese cities. One side of the insert bore color pictures of Niagara Falls and London's Big Ben clock tower, the other a solid block of brown ink. As the subscribers listened spellbound, the insert, placed face up in a table-top device called a Synchroreader, reproduced the awesome thunder of Niagara Falls, the clangorous toll...