Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elder Glasses are Irish-Jewish vaudevillians now retired to a life of comfortable reminiscence. Les Glass and Bessie Gallagher, professionally known as Gallagher & Glass, achieved "more than just passing notability on the old Pantages and Orpheum circuits." They are descended from "an astonishingly long and motley double-file of professional entertainers"; Les's grandfather, for instance, was "a quite famous Polish-Jewish carnival clown named Zozo, who had a penchant?right up to the end, one necessarily gathers?for diving from immense heights into small containers of water." The seven children, too, have been professionals; they were all prodigies...
...April, rural St. Helena parish, in southeastern Louisiana, voted 1,147 to 5? to do so. Having ordered St. Helena schools to integrate, the federal court made the case a test of the state law. Being thorough, the court even asked the attorneys general of all 50 states to file briefs on a curiously unsettled question: Does the U.S. Constitution require states to provide public education? Of those who replied, 17 said yes, n no. The court's ruling was based on something more obvious: the state law denied equal protection and circumvented desegregation. Summation of the Louisiana decision...
...fashioned everything from parts of automobile chassis to handwrought silver chalices. Drawn to Paris, she set up shop in a cheap Left Bank hotel, developed the technique that she has followed fairly consistently ever since. Not wishing to disturb her fellow tenants by hammering, she would draw and file her silver strips until they could be bent and twisted and hooked into graceful designs...
...teachers who put in a brief tour, the Air Academy is allowed 22 permanent professors, who rank as full colonels and heads of departments until retirement. So far the academy has only eight such professors-but not for lack of applicants. "Some 11,000 applications for teaching are on file from active-duty officers," says Major General William S. Stone, superintendent of the academy. Stone's main problem is finding men of staggered ages to prevent future mass retirement...
Cops and Robbers. Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour workday, and his astonishing memory enabled him to pull the names and addresses of hundreds of loyal Communists out of an ever ready mental file. "When we set up the East Zone's first Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs," recalls Wolfgang Leonhard, a member of Ulbricht's original Berlin group who has since defected to the West, "Ulbricht assigned every department head and his staff-some 40 appointments, down to the motor-pool boss-in about an hour...