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...never appears onscreen-is a Ferndale upperclassman grown disgusted with bungling adults and their clumsy efforts to avert planetary suicide. To show up his belligerent pacifist father (John Mills), Icarus organizes a Hydraheaded insurrection at Ferndale, torments the school's bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four powers with a peace petition signed by Ferndale...
...learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about 40% in 1957. During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor for the Los Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those who have it would...
...million refinery in little Anacortes, Wash, last year, employees were advised to ''be helpful but go slow" in civic activities. A company executive explained. "We were very careful not to lead residents to believe we were going to be the great white father." Said Editor Wallie Funk of the Anacortes American Bulletin: "Only a few of us suffered any Shell shock...
...evening touring Violinist Nathan Milstein found himself in Chicago, all dressed up and no place to go. In a bit of a funk, he consulted his contract, which cryptically stated that he was to play a concert that night in suburban Evanston, Ill. Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn...
...Funk joined duPont in 1932 and since then has served in various supervisory capacities in rayon and nylon manufacturing facilities. MacVeagh served in advisory positions to the Federal Government in World...