Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...
...Soviet Union in its responsibilities toward Berlin" if the Russians carry out their threat to turn over their occupation rights in Berlin to the East German puppet government on May 27. This allied stand does not rule out a possibility of dealing with East Germany as an "agent" of the Soviet Union if the Russians formally admit a continuing responsibility for assuring allied access to Berlin, as promised...
...speaker explained that his career with the Communist Party as a secret F.B.I. agent, began "right here in Cambridge, when I innocently joined a front organization." Front groups, he said, are "seemingly innocent organizations, like the former Cambridge Youth Council," which may have a majority of well-intentioned members, but are controlled by the Communists. "There are just a few vultures, but many victims...
...White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every day writing the script, building laboratory props and rehearsing with a 21-man crew. The preparation...
...restores to these familiar jokes something of their first fine fervor and surprise. The man obviously loves his material, and he has fired the players with something of his own excitement. Even bored old Keenan Wynn is back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces the funniest line in the film: "Miss Baker...