Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, semicircular conference room in the U.S. Capitol, seven Senators and seven Representatives last week sat down to what may be the most important job of their legislative lives: hammering out a labor reform bill. Between the hard-fisted Landrum-Griffin bill passed by the House (TIME, Aug. 24) and the milder Kennedy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate, there was ample room for compromise, though the rigid-and almost equally divided-positions of the conferees typified a general bitterness rarely before equaled on Capitol Hill...
...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
...what really made exotic fuel a marginal program was the rapid developments in aviation and rocketry since the program began, plus some hard-to-lick bugs in using the fuel. Jet engines have improved so rapidly, even using cheap kerosene as fuel, that they are rapidly, approaching the efficiency expected with exotic fuels. Furthermore, U.S. missiles that can be fired at a distant target from speeding planes have been developed so fast that an increase in the range of the B70 is not as important as it once...
...wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard-dying concern about keeping their virginity...
...Story. The photography is glorious but the religious picture is blurred as Audrey Hepburn plays a Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of man comes hard...