Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Maintenance. In Chicago, Conrad Hernbrott's estranged wife let the air out of his automobile tires, took the tubes out of his TV set, locked him out of his room and changed the lock, posted a sign in the corridor of his rooming house reminding him that he hadn't made his support payment...
...real issue was still not wages but the work rules set up twelve years ago by Section 2-B of steel's standard wage contract. Management demanded change because the rules foster "featherbedding and loafing." The management demand solidified union ranks, raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced a million tons more in the first half of 1959 while cutting its work force from...
Truckdriver Poe, his left leg caught in the cab, cried to rescuers: "Don't let me die this way! Thank God you're here! Oh my God! Thank God you're here! Help me! Save me!" With crowbars and wrenches, emergency crews got Poe free, sent him on to a hospital with four badly burned coeds. The charred bodies of Professor Sixta and nine girls were sent to the morgue...
...Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse...
...Nothing Bothers Me." Little in Pitcher Sherry's background hinted that he would ever make the World Series, let alone allow just one run in 12⅔ innings for a startling earned-run average of .71. Son of a Los Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed...