Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...signed on the dotted line as president of the National Association of Broadcasters was Florida's genial Demo cratic Governor LeRoy Collins whose $22,500-a-year term expires in January. After his effective chairing of the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles earlier this year, Collins hinted that he was open for an ambassadorial or Cabinet post if the Democrats win. Best guess as to why Collins would choose October's birdinhand instead of waiting for the iffy outcome of November's election: $100,000 a year...
...brigade. Its trick is to record the satellite's signals directly on tape, then slow the tape so that normal machines can deal with the signals at their leisure. Beyond this operation, the satellite can be instructed to receive and transmit any message simultaneously. This permits communication on line-of-sight microwaves between places such as Fort Monmouth and Puerto Rico, which are separated by a high bulge of the earth's curvature...
...colleges multiplied. Cal's alumni among the state legislators (now 35 out of 177) tried to hold down their budgets by line-to-line scrutiny. Tempers flew. Already restive at being weakly administered by three different agencies, the state colleges in 1958 demanded Cal's kind of constitutional fiscal autonomy (which only six other state universities in the U.S. enjoy). They also demanded the right to confer doctorates-and to be universities...
Close Votes. The militancy on the picket line barely concealed many of the union members' misgivings about the strike. The union's local at the Schenectady, N.Y. plant, the largest of G.E.'s 166 factories, at first voted 5,033 to 2,895 not to strike. But after the other I.U.E. locals went out, union officials at Schenectady passed around a petition until enough names were collected to call out I.U.E. workers there too. Soon after the strike began at Schenectady, such violent skirmishes broke out that the mayor declared a state of emergency, asked New York...
...strike? The union claimed that almost all of its 70,000 members (out of G.E.'s hourly work force of 110,000) were out, but the company maintained that as many as 5,000 workers, who are represented by the I.U.E., were slipping through the picket lines and reporting for work at the 44 struck plants. By the fifth day of the strike, G.E. said that including supervisory and salaried personnel, it had 33,902 employees in the nine major strikebound plants where 98,390 employees normally work. One thing was sure: not nearly enough workers were getting into...