Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunganstown, where Patrick Kennedy came from, the President found Cousin Mary Ryan, sixtyish, and her two daughters waiting for him. Their little farm had been transformed only a few days before: the dirt yard had been laid with concrete, and plumbers had installed an indoor bathroom (wags dubbed it "John's John"). U.S. Secret Service Men literally had to use force to break the grips of hands that clutched at Kennedy. There were countless exchanges of gifts, including a sheepskin floor mat, presented to Kennedy by his cousins. "This," explained Old Family Doctor Martin Quigley...
...young playwrights mixed magic and mediocrity in the Experimental Theatre last evening. Marie-France Lathrop's mime--Others, I Am Not The First--was magical. Senior Jonathan Sisson's Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe provided most of the mediocrity...
...Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe is not entirely bad. As Minsky, a man who destroys things, Lauent Weisman is very effective. He portrays Minsky with a forceful calm that the play lacks. Richard Black plays his dinner guest, an advertising executive, with the deliberate superficiality the role requires. But it is not much of a role, and Black's jittery movements and exaggerated expressions of joy only add to the chaos of Sisson's play...
Claggart (played by Robert Ryan) himself cannot comprehend the spectacle before him; he forces himself to see evil in Billy. In a pathetic scene, he exhorts Squeak to portray Budd as a mutineer. Ryan plays the perfect villain; watching a whipping delights him to the point of ecstasy...
...outcome represented the I.A.M.'s fifth failure to get a union shop at Lockheed. Nor was the I.A.M. or the competing United Auto Workers doing much better in other West Coast aerospace plants. Unlike Gross, executives at North American Aviation, Ryan and Convair agreed to put the issue to a direct vote, but in each case the unions failed to gain the required two-thirds majority. The question is also being fought at Boeing, where management is holding out against a union shop even though employees in a non-binding poll have already voted overwhelmingly in favor...