Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Byron Janis and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Tenor Jon Vickers will appear at the weekly Friday-Saturday-Sunday concerts. Other highlights: performances by the New York City Ballet, a pop series including Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Folk Singers Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie. Trumpeter Louis Armstrong will close the festivities on Labor...
...inheritance of Kennedy's popular support is problematic. Many of his partisans, stunned and embittered, have already forsworn further interest in the outcome of the election-an attitude that would hurt the Democratic candidate in November. Yet thousands of former R.F.K. backers in organized labor and among Negroes, Mexican-Americans and urban ethnic groups will undoubtedly gravitate to Humphrey. Students, intellectuals and antiwar Democrats who favored Kennedy will probably wind up with McCarthy...
Rustin's economic charter called for a million new public-service jobs for the poverty-stricken, passage of an omnibus housing bill, extension to farm workers of labor bargaining rights, more funds for welfare budgets and emergency food programs for the poor. Abernathy's fiery new demonstration director, Hosea Williams, sneered that Rustin's manifesto was an unauthorized "bunch of foolishness." Rustin asked for Abernathy's support. It was not forthcoming, and he quit. Abernathy had already named a replacement, and Rustin's departure left Resurrection City to ranters...
Away from Marcuse. That plea for the status quo was just what can be expected, says Radical Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the California-based evangelist of nonworker revolution who is one of the heroes of the European student rebels. Modern technocratic workers, whether they labor in Communist or capitalistic nations, he says, are too wrapped up in the system to turn on it-and increasingly, as student activists put out calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than...
...citation: "A former specialist in labor law, active in improving the administration of justice, he now exercises his gift for reconciliation in the highest court of the land...