Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopeful moments, it seemed that the judges might have catalyzed a break in the strike. "Let me suggest a way out," said John Harold, attorney for the Pressmen's Unit; he confided to the panel that his union's membership was "close to a settlement." The judges promptly recessed to let the pressmen and the publishers come together in negotiations that went on all night. But this produced only an objection by Bert Powers. "A severe handicap," said he. "It puts us in a disadvantageous position to have a second union negotiating while we're negotiating...
...rocky island of Tungyin, 50 miles off the coast of Red China, is the headquarters of a little-known military unit called the Anti-Communist National Salvation Army. The secret army, 30,000 strong, is Chiang Kai-shek's instrument for the long-promised return to the mainland. The troops are trained as guerrillas, armed with U.S. weapons, and come largely from the mainland coastal provinces...
...Sullivan plan calls for a 50-story star-shaped office building, which would include a hotel, restaurant, professional building, and 400-unit apartment building to be built at a cost of $45 million...
Also on the grounds at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee are a dozen tenant farmers and their families, who send their children to the school, attend adult classes in better farming methods. A dairyman, for example, gets a $30,000 farm unit with a house, a barn and cows, and can stay ten years in return for splitting his profits with the school. By universal sharing, the school is thus combating what President Anderson calls "too much giveaway today." Says he: "We have no miracle pills here-just opportunity...
...family became more and more of a private unit, it was increasingly preoccupied with the child, immuring him for his own good in the highly disciplined boarding school of the 18th and 19th centuries. Writes Aries: "The solicitude of family, church, moralists and administrators deprived the child of the freedom he had hitherto enjoyed among adults. It inflicted on him the birch, the prison cell-in a word, the punishments usually reserved for convicts from the lowest strata of society. But this severity was the expression of a very different feeling from the old indifference: an obsessive love which...