Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to show his superiors how "positive" he was by challenging his comrades to "friendly emulation in work." He was so successful that one day he was permitted to walk to Peking for a holiday. There, he wrote a letter full of subtle hints to some relatives in Hong Kong. The relatives got the hints, later sent him a cable saying his father was dying. Lo was by now so trusted that he was allowed to go to Hong Kong...
...about the same time, a Miami-to-Chicago train bringing Marshall Field Jr., 42, publisher of the morning Chicago Sun-Times, and his family home from a Florida holiday pulled into the 63rd Street station. There, to avoid reporters he knew would be waiting for him at the downtown terminal. Field got out alone. He had a secret too-the same as Walters'. Next day Field called Chesser Campbell, publisher of the rival-and dominant-morning Chicago Tribune. "I wanted you to be the first to know," he said, with the air of a man who has just slipped...
Playing at the number one position, Hamm defeated his old nemesis, Gary Tobin, who had whipped him earlier this year in a holiday tournament. Tim Gallwey withstood the smashes of Ephman Ed Fleischman to win in the second slot. Gerry Emmet, Pete Lund, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Wally Stimpson, Vic Poletti, and Kent Allen also registered victories...
...thought the team played very well," coach Jack Barnaby commented after the victory. "The team's top men--with the exception of Gallwey--didn't play very well against Army or during the holiday tourney, but now they're looking solid again." Barnaby emphasized that Williams was no easy match for the Crimson, observing that "the match was closer than it seems...
While the unions won a round against the companies, the cynically timed holiday strikes may well bring a tighter Government policy against such walkouts. At week's end Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced that he will soon convene a top-level labor-management conference to debate whether the 33-year-old Railway Labor Act, which tries to regulate airline disputes, needs revamping and toughening. Hearing the news, Eastern's Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker called for a law to require compulsory arbitration of disputes that cannot be settled by Government mediation...