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...ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain, as in Russia, any strike is illegal), the sit-downers were summarily fired. In addition, the government-run labor syndicate...
Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
When the workers asked for metal spoons in the stalovaya (factory lunchroom) "like workers in other countries have," the Reuthers machined a batch out of old fender metal. Delighted, the Russians took the spoons home. Soon all were gone. "This under Socialism, comrades!" sputtered a party official. "Sheer capitalistic acquisitiveness!" On leaving Gorky, the brothers traveled 18,000 miles across the U.S.S.R., came home via Japan. At 28, Walter Reuther had completed his education and was ready to get to work in an auspicious environment, Depression-haunted Detroit...
...totally neglected 28% of the college. The depression slump had tightened about the commuting student and offered him little opportunity to escape into Lowell's house system, then beginning to boom. Although several alumni suggested an integration of the commuters into the houses as non-resident members, a lunchroom opened in the basement of Phillips Brooks House. But the crowded, hot, and messy corner was soon called "The Black Hole of Calcutta...
Almost from the beginning, critics have talked about Hemingway's obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...