Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, said last week that the affiliation would not support the current Kennedy-Erwin bill without its attached amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, an indication of organized labor's general support for moves to control locals and give the government an opportunity to clean up individual cases of corruption. But in making his statement, Meany made one statement which reflects a great deal of labor's present attitude. Wherever there is corruption in the unions, he said, there will be some other corruption, either in management or in the police...
...approved last night by the Council, the newly authorized body will plan publicity and recommend possible procedure for the fund-raising campaign. It will be up to the Council to act on these recommendations or not, as it sees...
...come in.' " The Sage failed (the three partners used to try to raise the payroll for the help by sitting in on a weekly poker game) and Belafonte wangled a four-week engagement at the Village Vanguard. It stretched to 22 weeks. Guitarist Millard Thomas joined the act. "I didn't have any of the accepted requirements," says...
...satellite, a magnesium sphere with a surface of silicon monoxide to keep it at proper temperature in sun or shadow, was put into a spin of about 50 r.p.m. The spin made it act like a gyroscope, keeping its axis always pointing in the same direction in space. At its perigee, the axis is parallel to the earth's surface. But a quarter of a revolution later the axis points vertically at the earth (see diagram). At apogee, the axis is parallel again...
...grand'mère of telephone dramas, Jean Cocteau's one-act, one-character play The Human Voice (1930) returned last week in a fine musical version by French Composer Francis (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Poulenc. Staged in Milan's La Piccola Scala, with shimmering Soprano Denise Duval as the distraught mistress, Poulenc's opera lifted the play again to the lyric tragedy that Cocteau intended: "The worst tragedy that can happen to us all-love and abandon...