Word: levying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Levi '54, Station Manager of WHRB, said that the first project planned for the two stations is a series of jointly produced "orgies" which will provide the Harvard-Radcliffe community with classical music 24 hours a day during reading and exam periods. During this time, both stations will carry the same programs, except from 7-12 p.m. when each will broadcast separately...
According to Levi, negotiations between the two independent stations began Oct. 17 and concluded Monday. The agreement was ratified by WHRB's Board of Directors Nov. 20, and by the WRRB staff Monday...
...have no prejudice, least of all against these poor people." From Israel, which is now losing more settlers than it is taking in (34,000 have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere since Israel became a state), came harsher words. "Emigrants have no title to sympathy," said Finance Minister Levi Eshkol. "Those who found sufficient funds for sea passage could have done quite well here with the energy and money used to arrange their emigration...
Died. William Levi ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 79, longtime (1915-52) president-dictator of the powerful A.F.L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (present membership, 822,000) ; of a heart ailment; in Indianapolis. Starting as a 20?-an-hour carpenter in Midland, Mich., Big Bill soon became a union business agent, in nine years fought his way to the presidency. A bitter, irascible foe of shop-wide unionism (i.e., the C.I.O.), he once traded punches with Fellow Czar John L. Lewis during a stormy A.F.L. convention, backed every Republican presidential candidate from Coolidge to Eisenhower. Last year, having quadrupled his union...
Denim's revolution is a product of the two-day weekend, the trek to the suburbs, and the increasing informality and casualness of U.S. living. Schoolboys started it, in the 19305, with a penchant for the copper-riveted "levis" which San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...