Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers) was clearly a disordered house, thanks to the loss of public confidence in trade unionism engendered by revelations of corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions. The business: whether or not to boot out the mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany, a tough guy of another stripe, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to throw out the Teamsters by a 5-to-1 margin...
...obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...
...case rekindled interest in Lina. Now 24, short, stocky and reclusive, she works as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who performed her Caesarean. Lozada gave her an education, is now putting her son through high school, reports: "Lina's boy is normal and intelligent. He wants to take up electronics...
...audience, back to the small-town world of his 1920s childhood. In a rambling old house it portrays a middle-class family; there is a slightly crude, life-speckled traveling salesman (Pat Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly recognizable, so comfortably life-sized and so frequently good for a laugh that, regardless...
...Broadway, Warner Bros. bought the movie rights, hired Inge to do the screenplay. "In the past, I did not feel ready to tackle Hollywood," says Inge. "But I feel now that I have some mastery my craft." Another upcoming Inge project: his first novel, a story of a boy growing up in the Midwest...