Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...
Over the years, the Geographic has compiled a roll call of contributors, lecturers and explorers that scans like a picket fence of U.S. history: Robert E. Peary (to whose 1906 assault on the North Pole the society contributed $1,000), Colonel George W. Goethals (who built the Panama Canal and told Geographic members all about it), Wilbur Wright, Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice...
...made his reputation with Patterns, a cliche-ridden but highly effective drama about a ruthless power struggle inside Big Business. Last week, as if to even things up, Playwright Serling took on Big Labor. The Rank and File (on CBS's Playhouse 99) sprawled across two decades of picket lines and meeting halls, was less neatly patterned than Patterns, with its close-order action around the directors' table. But, because exectuive suites have become a show-business commonplace, while the union local is still relatively fresh territory, The Rank and File carried far greater interest...
...Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor masters...
...first doubles match, Hoehn and Picket broke Bowditch's service twice to take the first set. But Bowditch's and Weld grew steadier and swept the second set easily. With the score 4-4 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair broke Hoehn for the fourth time in a row (this time at love) and held Weld's service in the next game for the match...