Word: hardship
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Except for the enforced shortage of cameras, color TV worked no production hardship. "We just went ahead as though color hadn't been invented," says Schaefer. One unfortunate result: after the murder of the King, the hands of Evans and Judith Anderson (Lady Macbeth) looked appropriately bloody on black-and-white; on color TV they seemed to be literally dripping with gore...
...common rooms, the squash courts-are also the most expensive. A flat residence rate would answer the protests of millionaires who now object to paying "exorbitant rent for just an ordinary room." It would muffle the din of imagined injustices, while providing a substantial solution for the real hardship that varied room rents produce...
...Graduate Student Council voted 15 to 0 Wednesday to announce its support of the Farnsworth program. The Council plans to send Farnsworth a letter, expressing its position that the present University medical fee works a hardship on many married graduate students and arguing that they should be exempted from the University...
...wage settlements was set by the steelmakers. The steelworkers asked for a package totaling some 50? an hour a worker (TIME. May 31), settled for 9? to 12? (including 5? in wages). Last week smaller steel fabricators were settling along the same lines with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with Goodyear after a 53-day strike, and with...
...happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded dressing gowns are readier with a pound of flesh than a $5 payment. Industrious Dan cannot remain stony before genuine hardship, eventually decides he has had enough of the "easy payment" world. Author Doyle, a credit manager in his nonwriting hours, writes like a man who knows his subject even when he does not know quite what to do with...