Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end four of the committee's tongue-tied witnesses had resigned their posts in locals of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, and more were expected to follow. This modestly encouraging result by no means satisfied Arkansas' John McClellan, committee chairman. "The testimony," he said, "clearly established that a number of local unions in the Chicago area were controlled by gangsters." The situation, he added, "cries out for remedial action, which is beyond the power of this committee. The committee trusts that responsible governmental agencies, on both the federal and state level...
...overriding is the appeal of Arab unity, and so inflammatory is Cairo's radio propaganda, that Nasser probably has little need to spend vast sums on paid agents to keep things popping. He can often leave it to local plotters to do the dirty work-as he may have done in Iraq -providing them with arms, money and technical advice when needed. But Nasser is an inveterate instigator, and the plot against Jordan, which King Hussein broke up at the last moment by arresting 60 army men, was entirely directed from Cairo. Washington is pretty sure that Nasser...
...four demonstrated considerable instrumental versatility. Mr. Brown, a virtuoso of long standing on the modern flute, also played several kinds of recorder. Mr. Fuller, a concert organist, here showed his skill on a rich-toned harpsichord built in 1955 by the local firm of Hubbard and Dowd. Miss Davidoff played both the 'cello and its quite different predecessor, the viola da gamba. Mr. Senturia, a first-rate oboist, also played on several sizes of recorder; and, in three pieces, he provided the chief novelty of the evening by performing on a krummhorn--a long obsolete, J-shaped woodwind with...
...book's most luridly contorted figures: Elizabeth Willard. whose uncontrollable love for her son feeds "the feeble blaze of life that remained in her;" the Peeping-Tom minister, the Rev. Curtis Hartman, who sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...