Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both sides refuse to accede in this battle, which has already started at the conference-table level. Item 1: Management has demanded an across-the-board wage slash for employees, while the Four Brotherhoods and the non-operating unions have insisted upon an unconditional boost. Item 2: The industry demands the right to change work rules hallowed by tradition and by the seemingly partial administration of the Railway Labor Act; labor categorically refuses any such changes. Item 3: Management has taken out six-month insurance to cover overhead in the event of a prolonged stoppage...
...theatrical journalists and single most commercially powerful critic in New York or Boston, Brooks Atkinson (Harvard, '17) of the New York Times: "One of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry ... magnificent ... In every respect J.B. is theatre on its highest level ... a stark portrait of ourselves composed by a man of intellect, faith and literary virtuosity." "This was the first inkling I had that Mr. Atkinson had called J.B. 'one of the memorable works of the century'," the poet said. "Well, after you've worked five years on a play and your...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 16--President Eisenhower agreed tentatively today to a new 1962 military budget which proposes to trim manpower slightly while keeping defense spending at about the present $41 billion level. Modern weapons apparently will get the nod over personnel. Military manpower now is about 2 1/2 million. How much and where it might be pared was not disclosed...
...wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public morality both in the industry and in the individual...
...fashionable Sutton Place (nine rooms, five TV sets), Kintner Cadillacs to work in the RCA Building by 8:10 each morning, spends at least half of his twelve-hour day group-thinking with the network committees populated by his 39 vice presidents. Few below NBC's top level know Kintner; unlike his chic, gregarious wife Jean, 42, he is not fascinated by his on-camera employees, rarely attends company parties for talent. He keeps a neat, boomerang-shaped desk in an office adorned by a mottled abstract, a wifely gift that he describes as "either an oil geyser...