Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...focus last week was on a pink-pated labor boss named Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000-man Teamsters Union, who arrogantly refused to answer a Senate committee's questions about misconduct and misuse of union funds that overlay much more serious implications of abuse of power. As Beck ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, the Americans who writhed most were the other leaders of organized labor, who feared that what was going on and what was disclosed might give all of labor a bad name. "We are in Gethsemane," said one A.F.L.-C.I.O leader...
...Fatuous" Talk. Then the President brought the essence of the budget-cutting controversy into sharp focus, as nobody in the Administration, or on Capitol Hill, had managed to do before, despite the torrents of talk. "If you are going to save this money," he said, "you have got to look at programs [and decide] what programs you want to eliminate." In "all sorts of ways," he continued, "the Federal Government has been assuming responsibilities by law that, if continued, are just going to cost money. And it's just fatuous to get up and say we are just going...
...Pierce or the authorities should try to seize her. Wild rumors had it that Pierce was waiting in a yacht off the coast, ready to carry her off. Ready for Glory. Cornelia eventually won her appeal to the Privy Council, but not before Connelly v. Connelly became the focus of a violent newspaper battle between British Protestants and Catholics, with U.S. papers echoing both sides. Pierce again became an Episcopal rector (after a brief dalliance with a sect prophesying the imminent Second Coming), and led the fight against Rome, firing off pamphlets informing readers that a "Roman Catholic...
...what the man says, but regrettably, in this as in most of his independent productions. Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors, the bang-bang-bang that puts the audience...
Attention will focus on Pete Harpel's last chance at the Crimson 35-pound weight record this evening in the University of Connecticut Relays at Storrs...