Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produce a Dacron-like fiber called Teron. This week the site was announced by its joint builders-Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and the Celanese Corp. of America. Their choice was Shelby, N.C. One major reason for choosing North Carolina, said Celanese, was the "wholehearted cooperation" of Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges...
Energetic, engaging Luther Hodges, 60, ranks as the South's No. i salesman. He is constantly traveling (63,000 miles last year) and speechifying (150 last year) to extol North Carolina's attractions for industry. Among them, as listed by Celanese: "An adequate supply of skilled and semiskilled personnel, attractive residential areas, an excellent public school system, a good network of state and county highways." The state also has a right-to-work law and the lowest rate of unionization in the nation (only 8.3% of North Carolina's nonfarm workers are organized). Since Hodges became Governor...
...they often let pass without comment the idle jokes and comments on Southern life. They overlook the professor's aspersion on Faubus and the preacher's praise of Martin Luther King...
...shoe section of a crowded Harlem department store, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 29, Negro leader of the peaceful, successful 1956 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, was autographing copies of his just-published book, Stride Toward Freedom; The Montgomery Story (Harper & Bros.; $2.95). Suddenly he was confronted by a Negro woman, who demanded: "Are you Mr. King?" King nodded: "Yes, I am." Then Georgia-born Izola Ware Curry, 42, who had lived in New York City on and off for half her life, suddenly flashed a steel letter opener and stabbed King in the upper left side of his chest...
Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...