Word: hartley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward J. Hartley, president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: Franklin J. Lunding, retired finance committee chairman of the Jewel Companies. Inc. grocery and food chain; and R. Stewart Rauch Jr., chairman of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...
...which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also announced a nationwide freeze on residential rents. Labor's legislative priorities include old-age-pension increases, land-speculation curbs and repeal of the Tories' Industrial Relations Act, a law modeled on the Taft-Hartley Act that has antagonized both labor and management. All should prove relatively uncontroversial if not uniformly popular measures...
...HIRELING could never be taken as seriously as it takes itself. Based on a novel by L.P. Hartley, it is cluttered and oppressive with plodding solemnity...
...Hartley's work was better served by Jo seph Losey and Harold Pinter a couple of years back in The Go-Between. Once again, as in The Go-Between, class consciousness induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
Died. L.P. (for Leslie Poles) Hartley, 76, prolific English novelist whose poised, finely finished story of love between the social classes, The Go-Between, was last year made into a memorable movie; of heart and liver disease; in London...