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Little David. The Reporter's survival is a measure of the bitterness of Port land's strike, which began with a stereotypers' protest over the introduction of automatic plate-casting machinery, and was soon punctuated by picket-line brawls and the dynamiting of newspaper delivery vans. Every other strike paper that has been started in the U.S. in the last 30 years-nearly a score in all-has done a quick fadeout as soon as the regulars returned to the newsstands. In Portland the regulars never really left; for six months they published a joint, typo-marred...
...party over to the rash and mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after...
...purporting to be knowledgeable, Fail-Safe thus plays on the deepest fears of humanity in the age of the atom; it is deliberately calculated to send distraught mothers to the picket lines with their Ban-the-Bomb signs. There is only one trouble: Fail-Safe is filled with falsities and distortions, and as such is not only a poor book but a cruel one. Among the major conflicts of fact and fiction...
Hargis, head of the rightist religio-political Christian Crusade, started the day's speeches with a prayer for the "misguided youth who picket this meeting today...
...newspaper strike negotiations become further complicated when New York Street Cleaners Local #60 decides to picket any settlement. The Janitors Local, the Toilet Tissue Workers International and the Christian Science Monitor declare solidarity with #60. Three Harvard government courses cancel lectures because of the lack of the New York Times...