Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billed as a cooperative witness. Gibbons showed up in Washington with two valises and a briefcase stuffed with union records. But the committee was not so interested in his luggage as it was in the dark record of his labor career, thoroughly documented by committee research and previous witnesses. Items: ^ Far from abhorring violence, as Gibbons piously testified, he is pretty good as an engineer of violence-as the evidence clearly showed. During a St. Louis cab strike in 1953, he used a crew of enforcers that included a procurer, a stickup man, a pimp who put his own wife...
...time he took office, Pat Brown had never tried a criminal case. But he surrounded himself with promising young trial lawyers, moved hard against gambling and vice interests, wrote a good record...
...fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license. And from the West German policemen's union came an irate demand that Strauss be charged with an attempt to exert improper influence...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. I (Sviatoslav Richter; Soviet State Radio Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling; Monitor). Thanks to skillful transfer of technically mediocre Soviet tapes to high-quality American matrices, this record stands out as the best yet released in America of fabled Sviatoslav Richter (TIME, June 16), probably the most versatile, widest-ranged pianist alive. Equaling Horowitz's technique, Rubinstein's poetry, Serkin's sensitivity, he makes even Saint Saens' Piano Concerto No. 5, on the other side, seem vivid and important...
...World Bank's need for new capital is not pressing, despite the fact that last year's $710,800,000 in loans to 20 nations is almost double its previous record year, and the long-range outlook is for a continued increase in loans. By voting an increase in the bank's authorized capital and by raising quotas (50% is the suggested figure) to provide it, the governors would help the sale of World Bank bonds on the world's markets. The bank now has capital of $9.4 billion, but bankers feel that its bonds...