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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boomed the U.A.W. magazine Ammunition in April 1949: As a substitute for straight wage boosts, profit sharing is a "step backward" for workers, adding to the "uncertainty" of their income and forcing them to "pay the cost of a bad decision" by management. Against the menace of profit sharing, the U.A.W. "will continue to fight with everything at hand...
Zero Hour. The Lumbees were restless because the Klan had burned two crosses as warnings to Indians to keep their place. (Backward Robeson County has three-way segregation in schools.) Despite the gentle protests of their elders, and of community officials around the county, many of the Lumbees calmly began to polish squirrel rifles and knives. Rumors ran that ammunition and other arms were selling at a fast clip in neighborhood shops. When the Klan sent around handbills announcing a rally in a field near Maxton, the Indians fixed their zero hour...
...School. Ranged next month against Khalil and the Umma Party will be a conglomeration of rival political and religious factions, chief of which is the National Unionist Party headed by short, shrewd Sayed Ismail el Azhari, an ex-schoolteacher and longtime nationalist whom the British once jailed ("In a backward country, prison is the politician's university, and I graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers...
Akins landed a left to the body and a followup left to the head which staggered DeMarco backward into a sitting position in the 11th. He got up at three...
...movie entitled Lift to the Gallows ("about a man who has committed the perfect crime-until he got stuck in an elevator"). In Europe he is perhaps the most widely imitated modern U.S. jazzman. No matter how closely young musicians may listen to him, Davis hates to take a backward look at his work. "You always see how you would have done it different," he says. "If you play good for eight bars, it's enough-for yourself...