Word: locked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the telephone, the editor of the bimonthly United Mine Workers Journal heard the unmistakable rumbling voice of U.M.W. President John Llewellyn Lewis: "When are you going to lock up the page forms of the next edition?" The editor said the following Monday. Replied John L.: "Well, I may have something for you. I'll let you know." Hours before presstime last week, John L. Lewis sent over a letter that gave the Journal-and most U.S. newspapers-a headline: JOHN L. LEWIS RESIGNS...
...take the "lock step" out of U.S. schools and get every child moving at his own pace, the mighty Fund for the Advancement of Education has spent $12.3 million in the past two years. Last week Fund President Clarence H. Faust suggested that the job has just begun. In a report on the fund's efforts since 1957 (notably in teacher training, educational TV), Faust pinpointed "an emerging central concern" of U.S. teachers and parents: the spreading notion that the sole goal of U.S. education is developing national manpower in competition with the Russians...
...been in many ways a trial run; port installations were not yet in shape to make their full contribution to the integrated flow of trade. Gauging 1959 against past performance, most cities on the seaway were well pleased-no fewer than 5,861 ships had traversed the St. Lambert lock. Tolls will not be touched for three to five years, until complete trade patterns emerge...
...read your Nov. 9 article on the steel strike with great interest. I have a suggestion to end long, costly strikes for all time. Simply lock the union and management in a room and let them out only when they have come up with an agreement. This method is used to elect a Pope, and has great success...
...Locked Out. Private hospitals are generally even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient...