Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm surplus...
...were at least 100 workers, and only one girl who could take dictation." At first there was talk of heads rolling, but Bobby strategically retreated: there was not time to build a new headquarters staff, and a lot of influential Democrats would have been offended by a wholesale slaughter. Instead. Bob increased his forces. Today the National Committee has overflowed into dozens of offices in five Washington buildings, and the scene at headquarters is one of organized confusion, with mimeograph machines and tables choking the corridors and the offices jammed to their transoms with employees. "Everybody's working like...
West Germany has piled up a favorable balance of payments of $1.3 billion and now has more than $6 billion in gold or gold equivalent. Instead of stashing away such "unnecessary reserves," said IMF Managing Director Per Jacobsson of Sweden. West Germany ought to be undertaking an imaginative capital export program...
...junior high school is extremely severe, Conant says. Recognizing the fact that junior high school classes are the hardest to teach, he calls for at least 50 instructors for every 1,000 pupils. He also urges that more teachers decide to pursue their careers in junior high schools, instead of using them as a springboard for posts in senior high schools or colleges...
...vastly different from comparable social protest meeting in the '30's and early '40's. When Bob Hope, in 1937, led a rally for unemployed longshoremen, spectators were immediately able to go out and do something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company are far less complex than those of the federal government...