Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Ike gave him his biggest assist, Halleck gratefully accepted some help from a hostile source. An alltime high tide of lobbyists (400 Teamsters, 200 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., other hundreds of grey flanneled N.A.M. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce men) had swept into Washington to join the struggle. Some of the labor persuaders unwittingly played into Halleck's hands by trying to use blackjack tactics on Congressmen. "If you vote for the Landrum bill," one bakers' union man warned New York's liberal Republican John Lindsay, "we're going to have to work you over...
...municipality"-at taxpayers' expense. It ordered the city's health department to make sure that all needy patients get treated at the city's General Hospital. But this left a lot of loose ends. Many patients were being treated in private hospitals-and with the high costs of polio care, almost every family becomes needy...
...were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr as the other socialites did. Mme. Straus said, "What...
...Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth, a male high-school teacher is drawn into an unconscious rivalry with a bright boy in the class over the prettiest girl. When the teacher intercepts a soppy note written by the girl saying that she loves him, he is touched and elated. His joy is short-lived. It turns out that the bright boy has coached the girl to guy all the male teachers with the same note. Friends from Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Seed of Guilt plants Actress Gloria Vanderbilt in a family full of high-style snobbery, lets her harvest the inevitable conflict between a class-conscious grandmother and a candid little granddaughter who does not believe that anybody's blood runs blue...