Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength of her high school diploma, Maggie went to work as the lone teacher in a one-room rural schoolhouse, on a salary of $8.50 per week (her early minimal wages have had no small part in Maggie Smith's long sympathy and activity for labor legislation). But one grim, icy winter was enough for her, and in the spring she retreated to the telephone company. Then, for eight years, she was an all-purpose employee (circulation, advertising, editorial) of the Skowhegan Independent Reporter. In 1930 Maggie married Clyde H. Smith, the selectman with the fascinating voice, after...
Good Listener. Greensboro was the week's lone occasion when Nixon went to the people. For the rest of the time, people came to him. Among them: Cinemactor George Murphy and Actress Helen Hayes, to report formation of a "Celebrities for Nixon Committee" ("Anyone who considers himself a celebrity," said a Nixon aide, "is eligible to join"). The heads of the Big Three farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Farmers Union, came by to talk farm policy. Said Farmers Union President James Patton afterwards: "He had some very worthwhile ideas ... I also...
...after moving to Washington) and Mexican folk songs (because they remind him of his honeymoon south of the border). ¶LYNDON JOHNSON, an indiscriminate admirer of Strauss waltzes, was understandably careful to ask also for such Western folk songs as Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, Home on the Range, and Whoopie...
...always the wisest-is to lay off workers; the long-range version of the same device is the major cost-cutting transition to automation in U.S. industry. Last week the Union Pacific Railroad laid off some 1,200 employees in a move to reduce costs, and Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. announced that it will lay off between 1,500 and 2,000 employees starting this week...
TURNTABLE WAR revives as Columbia Records began issuing three-minute pop "singles" (in recent years available only on 45 r.p.m.'s) in 33⅓speed. Capitol, ABC Paramount, Argo and London record firms will soon follow because of declining pop-singles sales. Lone holdout in drive to make 33s standard for industry: RCA Victor, which pioneered...