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...tension in the room evaporated in a collective gasp of relief. The legislators had expected Kennedy to ask Congress to settle the dispute by outright compulsory arbitration -a prospect that frightened the politicians, wary of offending organized labor. "This is just right," whispered New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. "A ten-strike," murmured Oregon...
...others run a small electrical appliances shop, and Johann Jakob Astor is a retired cop. All of them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed...
...company dance-miming a sugar-spun spoof of small fry called Street Games. It was one of four ballets danced in a one-night stand at Central Park's Delacorte Theater in New York by the British troupe, which has been making its official U.S. debut at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Lee, Mass. This is a casual group that sometimes seems more inclined to do a cha cha cha than an entrechat. Rather like the American Ballet Theater, the Western Theater company wants to avoid dance in the abstract and stress the psychology of personal...
...that made demands on company and audience. Peter Cazalet, Hazel Merry and Sylvia Wellman danced their eternal season in hell with affecting desolation, though Choreographer Maurice Bejart's strained balletic invention at one point reduced them to peering dolefully through the symbolically barred backs of chairs. Returning to Jacob's Pillow, the company put on The Wedding Present, an emotionally charged dance drama with homosexual overtones, about the crackup of a marriage. A dance shocker, of a sort, was offered in a scene in which two males embrace and kiss...
Harry (Only in America} Golden, whose brother Jacob came to the U.S. in 1905 and peddled to support his family, tells the story of the peddlers and, in a leisurely introduction, offers insights into life on the road. He invents two typical peddlers-a Connecticut Yankee and a Carolina Israelite-and lets them tell their own tales...