Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years New York publishers argued that they could not retain antiquated methods when faster and cheaper ones were available. Just as adamantly, Bertram A. Powers, president of Big Six, refused to allow the introduction of innovations that would replace his members. Attrition agreements worked out elsewhere did not satisfy him, and he demanded protection for part-time workers. The printers' last contract expired in March 1973; Powers and the publishers haggled over a new one for 15 months...
...gesture harked back to 19th century wrecking of machines by Luddites. In the composing room of the New York Daily News one morning last week, Bertram A. Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, seized a thin magnesium plate and ceremoniously crumpled it. The plate was the first to bear the imprint of type set on Daily News automated equipment-photo-composing machines that translate strips of perforated tape (produced by special typewriters) into film negatives of newspaper pages. For his symbolic and melodramatic act, Powers was arrested and then quickly released on his own recognizance. The stage...
Looking back over nearly 60 years of combat in the dance world, Including her own company's civil war last year that caused the departure of Dancers Mary Hinkson and Bertram Ross, Martha paraphrased French Tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt: "I failed yesterday, even so I'll still go on today...
Vulnerable Forces. Nonetheless, Christoph Bertram, assistant director of the highly respected Institute for Strategic Studies in London, predicts that if the current Soviet technical development continues and no defense is found, "all U.S. land-based missile forces would be highly vulnerable by the end of the decade." One alternative would be to abandon land-based missile systems altogether?a step that has been suggested by both the Federation of American Scientists and analysts at the Brookings Institution. The idea is also supported by Fred C. Ikle, the chief of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Such a change would...
...ever had to give up flirting, she would "give up altogether." Now it seems that her championship of sometime Photographer Ron Protas, 31, as executive director of the Martha Graham Dance Company has caused several old friends to give her up. Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic" members of the board...