Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week, blustery, bogtrotting Mike Quill, boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, walked up to union pickets outside Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. Got to get some exercise, boys," he said in his carefully nurtured County Kerry brogue, and took a picket sign and began to march. Thus last week did Mike Quill's T.W.U., along with the System Federation union, shut down the Pennsylvania Railroad for the first time in its history. To newsmen Quill growled: "It took 114 years to close down this line, and it may take another 114 years to open...
...tidal bore of abstract art flows so overpoweringly these days that most critics find it profitless trying to swim against the current. But last week at the 30th Venice Biennale. 400 painters and sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible...
Pickup Jobs. One day next month, tall, handsome Conductor Schippers (6 ft. 3 in., 175 Ibs.) will celebrate two milestones: his 30th birthday ("at last") and the tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become...