Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy ordered a cot set up in his office in anticipation of a heavy week, canceled all holidays for his cops, placed his 24,000-man force on a 60-hour work week, alerted inspectors for 24-hour-a-day duty, assigned 8,000 men just to guard the visitors. Picketing would be permitted, he said, though not with placards held with sticks that might be wielded as weapons. All "movable objects" that might be used for ammunition (e.g., trash receptacles) were removed from streets on which the visitors might ride...
...American cities," continues Gaya-Nuňo, "which 50 years ago were little more than a set for a western-a street, some bars, horses and cowboys-now have museums far superior to those in Amiens or Pisa." At the same time, the big museums, such as Manhattan's Metropolitan, "are just about to surpass definitively the great museums of Europe, just as the small ones surpassed their European counterparts a long time...
...unemployed in August. More important, unemployment did not decline as steeply as it should have between July and August, and the seasonally adjusted percentage of unemployed rose from 5.4% in July to 5.9% in August-the highest percentage since the steel strike last fall. Employment in August, though it set an alltime high for the month with 68,282,000 working, actually involved a working force that was 407,000 fewer than in July...
...quickly. In the machine and tool industry, where techniques change so slowly that an exposition is held only twice a decade, the numerical-control machines brought forth a babble of superlatives, such as "the sunburst of a new era," "a stupendous breakthrough." Where it now takes a day to "set up" a lathe or other machine before it can begin turning out parts, the new machines can be ready to work in minutes, switch easily from one job to another...
...hearing for his brainchild, is no more; he can hardly get any inventing done today for all the eager customers beating a pathway to his door, or corporations trying to hire him. Last week in Los Angeles, as in many another U.S. city, a task force set up by the Chamber of Commerce was out hunting down new inventions, forearmed with a list of manufacturers anxious for new products. This week You and Your Big Ideas, a television show that invites little-known inventors to demonstrate their wares and provides a panel of experts to evaluate them, begins...