Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...clock in the almost empty Senate chamber stood at a few minutes past 11 one morning last week as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas unfolded his lanky frame from his first-row seat and tersely asked unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consider a minor bill already passed by the House. Senators drifting into the chamber almost ignored the majority leader's routine request, which was routinely granted. The bill, a piece of legislative trivia, would authorize the Army to lease an unused barracks building at Fort Crowder to neighboring Stella, Mo. (pop. 177) to replace...
Unhappily, the team fell apart before Tom Morfit had a chance to jump. "I didn't know Scott was a great writer," Moore remembers now. "To me he was just a drunk. I'd show up at 7 o'clock, and he'd already be three-quarters in the bag." One night when Fitzgerald's well-oiled enthusiasm moved him to chase Moore's sister around the room, the collaboration ended for good...
...there are Jim Crow locals aplenty, and Randolph publicly criticized Meany at the union's convention last fall for not purging them. Meany blew up, roared at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all Negroes in America?" Since then, Randolph has been working round the clock to show him who. He is busily whipping together the "Negro American Labor Council," which aims to embrace the 1,500,000 Negro members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers...
...years, 175 gifted graduates of 58 colleges around the world have heard these words before beginning a dream life at Harvard. The society's nine Senior Fellows pick the Junior Fellows because they give rare promise of original work; the idea is to free them of the usual clock-punching requirements of graduate study. Turned loose for three years, the J.F.s can pursue whatever pleases them, from poetry to physics. They need not attend any courses or earn any degrees. At their full disposal are Harvard's libraries and laboratories; they get free room and board, plus...
...cloudy market picture, one thing is clear: the compacts are still setting the sales pace. Ford and Chrysler are trimming production schedules on their standard cars to step up production of compacts, and American Motors added a third shift, is producing round the clock. The shortage of compacts is slowly beginning to ease, but many dealers are still crying for more compacts, especially on the West and East coasts. Rambler led the January compact-sales parade with 35,000 cars, followed by Ford's Falcon (32,000), Chevrolet's Corvair (19,000), Studebak-er's Lark...