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...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: First Knight | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bush Teachers | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create 25,000 to 35,000 new jobs in basic steel." Employment, McDonald noted, has not risen as fast as production since the recession; consequently, his featherbedding idea would take up some of the slack. McDonald, who threatened a strike July1 if there is no new contract by then, also had words for Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator had proposed that the union peg its wage demands to the average increase in steel productivity. Snapped Steelworker McDonald: "I wish Senator Kefauver would learn to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Three Months' Vacation | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...industry still had some slack left, but it was not enough to feel really comfortable, and steelmen were thinking of expanding once again. National Steel Corp. Chairman George Magoffm Humphrey and President Thomas E. Millsop announced that they will build the industry's biggest new finishing plant since U.S. Steel Corp. put up the $500 million Fairless Works (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: New Peak in Steel? | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and director of the group, said that it will not use the "traditional doctor-patient relationship, which has been rather unsuccessful in the past, but rather an employer-employee relationship in which the volunteer as employer pays the delinquent as an experimental subject for his attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Committee to Tackle Problem Of Cambridge Juvenile Delinquency | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

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