Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike involving 15 northern California painters' locals. The upshot: a settlement giving the area's painters $6.51 hourly in pay and fringe benefits, highest scale...
...relative wilderness of Manhattan's Lower East Side, where even the off-off-Broadwayites rarely penetrate. Vaudeville was staged last week in the troupe's permanent home, a small (348 seats) theater nestled between a drugstore and a Jewish bakery and operated by the Henry Street Settlement, an institution primarily devoted to neighborhood social work. Despite this isolation, Nikolais has built a big following that now affords him the luxury of a 21-week season and an increasing number of performances on tour, on TV, and at such uptown palaces as the New York State Theater at Lincoln...
...90th anniversary, it can take credit for enough good deeds to honor spiritual institutions ten times as big. Over the years, members have been responsible for creating the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, and the nation's first settlement house...
...they are even more idealistic than the ones who went abroad. "There's probably a little less glory this way, at home, but it's more important than going overseas," said New Yorker Barbara Dunlap, a 22-year-old Skidmore graduate who lives in a Pima Indian settlement near Phoenix. "You have to solve your problems at home first." Paid $50 a month plus a subsistence allowance that varies from kregion to region, living at roughly the same level as the people they are helping, some 3,500 VISTAS are deployed from the Everglades to the Yukon...
...order to plan a joint diplomatic offensive against Western Europe. Obviously the Russians would like to use De Gaulle's abiding fear of a resurgent Germany and his desire to banish Anglo-Saxon influence from the Continent to achieve the old goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany, and 2) withdrawal of the U.S. from Europe. Complains Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The United States believes for some reason or other that Europe cannot do without its presence and trusteeship. But the people of Europe have and will...