Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
...engineer. ALPA and American had reached an informal agreement by adding a fourth man as third pilot. But then they disagreed on wages and flying hours for crews of both jet and piston-driven planes. American offered substantial wage increases, e.g., from $19,200 annually to $28,000 for eight-year pilots, but demanded that pilots continue to fly 85 hours a month, the maximum allowed by the old contract. ALPA asked a scale up to $27,500 for the same senior pilots, but wanted monthly flying time cut to 75 hours. Unable to resolve the differences, union and management...
Tidying Up. A committee resolution proposed that a worker might be more efficient if he got at least eight hours' sleep a night and was fed "decent food." The Central Committee promised a "tidying up, consolidation and expansion" of the rural communes-but then revealingly added that, for the present, communes would not be extended to urban centers because "bourgeois ideology is still prevalent in the cities." Tibet (where Red troops have their hands full with the rebellious Khamba tribesmen) was also exempted from the dubious joys of the people's communes. The Communists now soft-pedal their...
...Sheraton President Ernest Henderson, 61, who has been in a partnership with Chairman Robert Lowell Moore, 62, ever since the two left Harvard ('18), the Matson deal was the biggest of a year in which they have acquired eight hotels. There are now 52 Sheraton hotels, and more are abuilding. Early next year Sheraton will open a $12 million, 561-room hotel in Dallas and a $3,500,000, 190-room unit in Binghamton, N.Y. Due to open later: new Sheratons in Baltimore, New Haven, Conn. and Portland...
Died. "Messiah" Krishna Venta (real name: Francis Heindswatzer Pencovic), 47, cultist, leader of the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Love) Fountain of the World; in a dynamite blast set off by two ex-members of the Fountain, who died taking eight others with them; near Chatsworth, Calif. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...