Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall now be in conflict with the law," he declared. "Because when the law is unfair, trade unionists since time immemorial have opposed...
...issues where there was less fear of bringing down the government, Wilson received jarring setbacks. By a wide margin, the party voted to withdraw British forces from east of Suez by 1970 and trim annual defense expenditures to $4.9 billion (v. $6 billion at present). The party also endorsed Frank Cousins' one-sided resolution to "bring all pressures" on the Johnson Administration to stop the fighting in Viet...
...first reactions are any guide, there is rough sledding ahead for the tough curbs on "trial by newspaper" proposed by the American Bar Association's advisory committee on fair trial and free press (TIME, Oct. 7). Its report, as summed up by Columbia Broadcasting System President Frank Stanton last week, "takes us on a walk through beautiful countryside-a countryside of delicate restraints governed by high purposes. But even a hasty examination shows signs that it may also be strewn with land mines of coercion and booby traps of suppression...
...Killing of Sister Georqe, by Frank Marcus, is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty on one of comedy's classic themes-fraud. It measures the ironic gap between public appearance and private reality...
...Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...