Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Hatred." The outraged shouts were still resounding in the House chamber when another labor leader decided to get into the act. Trigger-tempered James Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers and a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., wrote a threatening letter to each of the 229 Representatives who had voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill. "We wish to assure you." wrote Carey, "that we shall do all in our power to prove to the working men and women in your district that you have cast your lot against them and they should therefore take appropriate...
Last week India's Communists chose inflammable Calcutta to show their defiance of Nehru's government for its act in ousting the Reds from power in the state of Kerala (TIME, Aug. 10). They had plenty of tinder at hand: the soaring food costs and the rice shortage, which are spreading misery in Calcutta and all West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister...
...driving accidents, Dennis' paternity suit), but do not think that Bing has set a much better example. Not one of his sons expressed much sorrow that their father had chosen to go fishing out in the Pacific rather than turn up for the opening of their night club act in Las Vegas...
Died. Jean Hugard, 86, the magician who first performed the risky bullet-catching act that later cost twelve imitators their lives, founded (1943) Hugard's Magic Monthly, a magician's trade magazine, which he continued to publish after going blind seven years ago; in Brooklyn...
Humane Socialism. Gibney believes that Gomulka, as the country's boss, has a fair chance to keep up his hair-raising tightrope act under the international big top. But he has no illusions about him. In the past, Gomulka "connived, cheated, threatened and bludgeoned" as much as any other Communist leader. When he returned to power in 1956, after years of imprisonment at the hands of the Stalinists, a more humane side emerged. He undertook to introduce democracy in the Communist Party and to build "humane socialism" (which Gibney describes as a "wedding of modern Communist practice with...