Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles started when the Senate toughened his original Kennedy Bill, got grim when the President pushed the far tougher Landrum-Griffin bill through the House. As chairman of the Senate-House conference to resolve the differences between the two measures, he fought a union-side rearguard action against adoption of all Landrum-Griffin's tougher provisions, won enough concessions to avoid an all-out attack by angered labor leaders. Last week the powerful building trades (which, thanks to Kennedy's plugging, got special privileges in the new law) gave him a rising ovation at their annual convention...
Within minutes of the first blast, grim-faced Gene Smith was in action, ordering all available police to duty, posting guards at homes of city officials and school board members, enlisting the aid of the Little Rock FBI office in a sleepless, round-the-clock hunt for the dynamiters. In three days he had rounded up five suspects: Building Supply Dealer E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, twice-defeated candidate for the City Manager Board and a leader of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council; Truck Driver J. D. Sims, 35, who admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed...
...again to the old, painful but also promising pos sibility that man is pre-eminently a social creature, or in theological phrase, a child of God." Future treatment of the emotionally ill. suggested Mowrer, "will, like Alcoholics Anonymous, take guilt, confession and expiation seriously and will involve programs of action rather than mere groping for 'insight...
...says Salzedo, "like a piece of cheese." Salzedo stayed at the Met for four years, then organized the U.S.'s first harp ensemble, later set off to tour Europe with a flutist and a cellist. After a stint in the French army in World War I (wounded in action). Salzedo returned to the U.S. and got to work making the harp something better than one of those "extra" instruments rarely heard outside full-dress philharmonic orchestras...
...Action (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). U.N. Ambassador Lodge will pass the word on Khrushchev's visit and the approaching General Assembly sessions...