Word: labor
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CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt. Love's Labor's Lost, King Lear, Henry IV, Part 1 will be playing in repertory until Sept...
...debate over the homosexual bill did not produce Commons' finest hour. When Tory Opponent Harold Gurden mused that a House of 600 members probably had some homosexuals in its midst and that they should declare their interest before voting, he was interrupted by a taunting cry from Labor Backbencher Andrew Faulds: "We don't know about you, do we? It might be interesting!" Replied Gurden: "If he is insinuating that I am one of the chosen few, perhaps he could tell us about it." The deputy speaker succeeded in restoring order and as the sun began rising over...
Untraditional Sports. The Tongans' formula for well-being seems to work. The people have never had to labor very hard; yams, bananas and copra grow abundantly for the picking. When he reaches 16, each youth is entitled to eight free acres of land for his own use. Though most Tongans were converted to Christianity by Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries, they have managed to retain their own gods too. Their monarchy is indigenous and one of the world's oldest: Tupou IV traces his lineage back a thousand years, and his is the last surviving Polynesian kingdom in Oceania...
Died. Konni Zilliacus, 72, maverick of the British left and longtime (1945-50, 1955-67) Member of Parliament, a World War I émigré from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London...
...held that the BGMA voted unofficially last fall to affiliate with it. Two other unions, the Building Services Employes International and a group seeking to keep the name BGMA, have also claimed to represent the B&G workers. The University has insisted upon an election, supervised by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board, in order to maintain its objectivity as the management party. Therefore Harvard has not recognized the BCMC as the official union...