Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Racket. Accardo, arrogant in cafe society suit and dark sunglasses, refused last week to tell the U.S. Senate labor-management investigating committee anything about his high standard of living, or how he keeps it. Testifying under subpoena, he set the style for six other professional gangsters who uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government...
...addition, the government should begin an extensive program of construction of fallout shelters. Further, technicians sent by the United States to foreign countries should not live lavishly, but follow Soviet technicians' example of living at a standard equal with that of most native residents...
...elusive to pin down) in recent years. ABC and MBS have long been in the red. The local is usually a completely independent station, but roughly one station out of four is affiliated (with increasing reluctance) with one or more networks. With some honorable exceptions, the locals' standard fare consists of the so-called "Top 40" tunes (mostly rock 'n' roll), news-headline teasers, whooped-up contests and giveaways, voices of home-town deejays that every housewife learns to know and like during her lonely hours spent over dishes, ironing board and stove. More and more, local...
...permission to build a new church (with donations from the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention), war broke out again in Sant'Angelo. Although Rome's Ministry of Public Works gave its approval and the Baptists started to build, the local mayor issued a firm no. Contrary to the standard plot rules of Italian church-state village dramas, Mayor Antonio Baldassarra was not a Communist, but a Christian Democrat who was outraged by the prospect of a Protestant church in Sant'Angelo in Villa...
...William Naden, 57, moved up from executive vice president to president of Esso Standard Oil Co., chief domestic marketing and refining arm of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). He succeeds Stanley C. Hope, 64, president since 1949, who retires. Naden was born at Methuen, Mass., took a chemistry degree at what is now Lowell Technological Institute ('22), joined Esso in 1927, rose to plant superintendent. In World War II, he pushed expansion of refineries in the East, at first for Esso and then for the Government. Naden advanced to general manager of Esso's manufacturing in 1949, a vice...