Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbol of Order. Many school administrators and faculty members concede that the injunction alone will not solve unrest on the campus. "I don't believe that a writ is a magic talisman that will ward off all devils," says Columbia Historian Walter Metzger, a specialist on academic freedom. "There has got to be some imagination and a very sophisticated armory of responses, including negotiation and dialogue." Law Professor Gerald Gunther of Stanford argues that it is better to bring the courts into campus confrontations than to summon police in the first instance. "I believe that there may be greater...
...Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional Saturn 5s, the money will be just enough to ward off protracted delays in manufacture. Says Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager George Low: "This summer is our last chance to establish a new goal with continuity...
...past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year. The hospital's 36-bed mental ward, which previously was inadequate to the demand, is seldom full today...
...fill a $15,000 job. Rather than pay such bounties, Loral Corp., a Scarsdale, N.Y., electronics firm, offers a color television set to any employee recommending an engineer who remains with the company for at least three months. Marcor, Inc., formed by the merger of Montgomery Ward and Container Corp. of America, awards $100 merchandise credits to employees who help recruit new data processors and secretaries...
...immigrant junk dealer, St. Louis-born Wolfson rose to prominence during the '50s by expanding Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a heavy-construction company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...