Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who are serving long sentences in hard-labor colonies for publishing abroad works critical of the government...
These cool autumn days, Harold Wilson is a Prime Minister in search of a scapegoat. His standing has suffered a steady erosion, as illustrated last week by the loss of two historically safe Labor seats in three by-elections. His Foreign Secretary, George Brown, has proved a recurring source of embarrassment, as he did again by rudely accusing Sunday Times Publisher Lord Thomson of "great disservice to the country." Common Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last...
...bagpipes skirled We Shall Overcome. Rallying the clans with a cry of "Put Scotland first!," a lawyer and mother of three, Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, had just done what everyone considered impossible. In a special by-election, she had won a seat long so safe for Labor that the party took it by a 16,576 majority the last time around. Reversing that margin to win by 1,799 votes, Mrs. Ewing became the first member of the Scottish National Party to go to Britain's Parliament since 1945. "Now it's home rule by 1970," she said...
...Glasgow University graduates shows that only 20% intend to emigrate; five years ago, almost half planned to leave. "For the first time we are getting things right in Scotland," says Willie Ross, the former Ayrshire teacher who is Secretary of State for Scotland in Harold Wilson's Labor Cabinet. "Scotland is on the move at last...
Died. Clare E. Hoffman, 92, long-time (1935-63) Republican Congressman from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Allegan, Mich. Hoffman generated so much bile over F.D.R., the New Deal, organized labor, and U.S. internationalism that even fellow Republicans were uneasy in his terrible-tongued presence, and Massachusetts' Democrat John McCormack was once moved to remark: ''I hold all my colleagues in highest esteem. I hold the gentleman from Michigan in my minimum-highest esteem...