Word: resultantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tragic & Dangerous. It was fitting that Jimmy Hoffa should be worried about the labor bill: he is the No. 1 reason for legislation aimed at reforming labor. The public demand for Congress to vote tough curbs on labor unions is a direct result of the revelations piled up over the past three years by the Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan. The McClellan committee uncovered plenty of corruption in other unions, notably the Bakery and Confectionery Workers and the Operating Engineers. But among U.S. labor unions...
...problems caused by the. blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said...
...Seek Ye First ..." At its best, the new African leadership has an impressive intellectuality. Kenya's whites are only too conscious of the ability of young Tom Mboya. It is at the second and third levels of leadership that the nationalist movements lack strength. One result is that even the most Western-minded of the African politicians feel that they are operating under crash conditions, and freedom in Africa does not necessarily promise democracy. One Nigerian said to me: "You in America get into a war, and you don't have much democracy either...
...every 2½). With the ten-year-old Communist insurrection spluttering into oblivion in the northern jungles and with the nation's rice crop the largest in its history, voters swarmed to the polls last week on foot, and by car, boat, pedicab and elephant. The result: a landslide victory for Tengku Abdul Rahman, whose Alliance Party captured 73 seats in Parliament, nearly three-fourths of all those contested...
...trudging along a snag-strewn jungle trail from his hospital at Muong Sing, only five miles from the Chinese border, to make a "house call" when he fell and bumped his right chest. It felt like nothing worse than a bruise. It was, but it had an unpredictable result. Later, when Dr. Dooley felt pain and a growing lump in his chest, he neglected...