Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters seemed almost as confused as the can didates. The Times, reporting on a Levitt foray into the garment district, discovered that many voters still did not know who the state controller was-and that those who recalled the name thought he was Lefkowitz. Levitt was regarded as a slight favorite in the Democratic primary on the basis that a small turnout (400,000 or less) would enable his organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal Party and of the brand-new, labor...
...satire of the Mao regime is being written in China-not the likeliest of propositions-it cannot bear much resemblance to this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy...
Ever since Britain diffidently began knocking at the door, the six nations of Europe's booming Common Market have found themselves at slight odds. Eager to have Britain in to offset French-German hegemony in the market, the three Benelux nations have tried to slow the pace of togetherness. France's Charles de Gaulle, who dreams of using the Common Market to Gallicize Europe, has tried to force the pace to discourage Britain. A "political" summit meeting of the heads of state of the Six, scheduled last spring, was called off because of all the intramural squabbling...
...parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage boost, guaranteed annual salaries for skilled workers, increased unemployment benefits and company-paid medical insurance...
...Slight, grey-blonde Josephine Poszywak Hoffa, 43, served coffee, led a conga line, captivated Teamster wives. "She's a doll,".said one, "with no airs." Mrs. Hoffa also revealed her formula for 24 years of happy marriage: "Don't nag him. If he's good to you, has a good job, and is doing what he wants to do, just be grateful...