Word: raskins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing, Retroactively. Two men emerged from the strike with their reputations somewhat brightened: New York's Mayor Wagner and veteran Labor Arbitrator Theodore E. Kheel. The goats were more numerous, but in a well-documented. 20,000-word postmortem. Times Labor Reporter A. H. Raskin narrowed the field to the two chief negotiators: Printers Union Leader Bert Powers and Times Vice President Amory H. Bradford...
Powers, according to one source quoted by Raskin, was "so superior to anyone he had to negotiate against that it was like matching Sonny Listen with a Golden Gloves champion." but he was also "cold, ambitious" and unpredictable. Raskin pulled no punches with his own front office: "One top-level mediator said Mr. Bradford brought an attitude of such icy disdain into the conference room that the mediator often felt he ought to ask the hotel to send up more heat." The publishers' attitude, Raskin quoted one observer as complaining, was always "Give 'em nothing...
Menotti has not had time within the framework of a television hour to develop either characters or unity of mood, has tailored his libretto to the limitations of the picture tube. But musically, the little opera is somewhat more successful. One aria, sung by Metropolitan Opera Soprano Judith Raskin, is lyrical and haunting; left alone in the corridor while her hus band, played by Baritone John Reardon, darts off on one of his searches, she sings I Shall Never, Never See My Home Again, the vocal highlight of the performance...
...LARRY S. RASKIN...
...Miss Raskin has sold the commercial rights to holey smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising...