Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite President Eisenhower's call for a swift steel peace (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), management and labor could agree last week only to continue disagreeing. Just before both sides met with federal mediators for the first time since a Taft-Hartley injunction sent the workers back to the plants, the...
IS the Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal...
Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called Topsy and Eva, popularized some of the classic songs of the '20s (Bye, Bye Blackbird; Side by Side); after an auto accident...
Died. Albert Joseph Engel, 71, onetime (1935-50) Republican Congressman from Michigan who specialized in ferreting out waste of the taxpayers' money, became the terror of free-spending bureaucrats and servicemen; from injuries suffered in a traffic accident; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dogged, chunky Al Engel was forever going...
Low-budget Canterbury is a kind of unrest home where an inmate ekes out his life like an indeterminate prison sentence. Most of the attendants are too overworked and too unfeeling to do more than slap the patients into line. The wards are the circles of a neo-Dantean inferno...