Word: restlessness
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...Franco's regime prepared for new labor trouble this fall, at the end of vacation season. Snapped Lieut. General Alonso Vega, boss of all Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then...
Khrushchev's tone left no doubt that if he himself finds it desirable, he would, as he remarked approvingly of Stalin, "do what, is necessary"-whether the hand falls on the restless writer or the intriguing Politburocrat...
...Europe. In 1953 she graduated from Florida A. & M. and got a job teaching health and physical education at Lincoln University (then restricted to Negroes) in Jefferson City, Mo. She coached the men's tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year her ranking fell so far that she was no longer listed among the country's top ten players. Althea was ready to quit. She all but decided to join the WAC and use a lieutenant's salary to help her family...
...RESTLESS combines growled and rattled across the rippling wheat fields of the Northwest. In the South, newly picked cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good...
Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater chain...