Word: powers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strikes: The President should have power to impose compulsory arbitration on the two sides when a strike threatens the nation's welfare. (Present law makes no provision for compulsory arbitration, and the Administration has never recommended...
...replace the present system of price supports, Rocky advocated what he called "stabilization supports," based on production costs and farmers' net income, rather than the prevailing parity concept of equalized purchasing power. But his explanation of what he meant was hazy. Two Midwestern farm experts who read the speech came to opposite conclusions. One said that Rockefeller had "turned his back on Benson." The other called Rockefeller "Benson in sheep's clothing...
...world. Instead of confining itself to averting Soviet aggression in Europe, he argued, NATO should bind its members to support one another's interests everywhere-and specifically to support France in revolt-torn Algeria. To frame common NATO policy, De Gaulle suggested the formation of a three-power superdirectorate composed of the U.S., Britain and France...
...oldest Christian traditions. It is also the easiest to dramatize. Canticles of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries-designed to teach doctrine to an illiterate public as well as to entertain-were the precursors of the medieval miracle plays. Some of the old canticles contain poetry that still has power to evoke the mystery and miracle of Christmas, as for example the 5th century Contacio of St. Romanus of Emesa in which the Wise Men are invited to see for themselves the "rich poverty...
...picked up small acting jobs off Broadway and on TV, kept up his La Guardian waistline by checking hats at Lindy's (all the cheesecake he could eat). Good off-Broadway jobs came in The Sea Gull (1954), Thieves' Carnival (1955), The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Power and the Glory (last year). Bosley won the La Guardia role over more than 200 other contenders (both Mickey Rooney and Eli Wallach had been considered), prepared himself by listening to recordings, reading biographies and studying still photographs, but he carefully avoided overdoing all that. "I do an impression...