Word: slantingly
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...show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed in the liberal tradition we liked." said a C.I.O. man. "That was good enough...
...Perle Mesta, gadding about the Soviet Union, was full of nice things to say about her hosts. At a meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow she was "pleasantly surprised to see so many women in politics," especially the "olive-skinned, slant-eyed, Oriental-looking women with long black braids." As for the Baku oilfields, they are "just terrific." Explained Perle (who inherited an oil fortune.): "They're larger than any I've ever seen in the United States ... It looks as though the oil is flowing freely...
...Communist Party tics of other tenured professors may well lead them to slant their teaching to a party line, especially in the social sciences. Yet the AAU would not fire a dogmatic Marxist or Freudian, both of whom blind themselves to all but a single cause; or a Catholic, whose ideas on certain subjects must change at the order of the Pope. For these beliefs are not presently dangerous to the government. But if only the threat's the thing, it is dangerously illogical to fire a CP member who has never taught threatening ideas. Moreover, any avowed Communist will...
...move has only served to heighten the ulcer-forming problems of the merchandising executive. All the old problems of daily sales reports, increased expense problems, profit responsibilities, slow selling merchandise, fashion trends, and long hours have taken on a new suburban slant. The result has been to make the retailer's job one of the toughest and most unpredictable in any field. Rapid turn overs in executive positions are the rule, not the exception...
...Four Confederate veterans are still alive: W. W. Williams of Franklin, Texas, 110; William A. Lundy of Laurel Hill, Fla., 104; Thomas E. Riddle of Austin, Texas, 106; and John Salling of Slant...