Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporations but by the craft unions, which are so biased that it is easier for a Negro to become a physician or junior manager than an electrician or a plumber. A recent Labor Department survey showed that in Baltimore there were no Negro apprentices among the steam fitters, sheet-metal workers or plumbers; in Newark, none among the stonemasons, structural ironworkers or steam fitters; in Pittsburgh, none among the operating engineers, painters or lathers; in Washington, none among the glaziers, sheet-metal workers or asbestos workers...
Sotheby's rival in London, Christie's, began its 200th season with sales of old wines and steam engine and ship models. The exquisite toys brought $1 15,556 in a day; a bottle of Chateau Pichon-Longueville 1878 brought more than $5 a glass. In such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch...
...problem lies in the text and in Kaplan's handling of it. The play comes from a tradition of academic farce in an era when the celibate Fellows of English universities had to blow off steam some way. It is more "important" as a source of Elizabethan comedy than worthwhile in itself. To play it completely straight would be the kiss of death...
...into the office of a Senator than to send him a petition full of names of all the heads of our member plants." Of campus-circulated petitions, Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, a confirmed non-signer, says: "I think they have no effect whatsoever except to let people blow off steam. In the past, the academic community was more responsible and therefore more effective...
Erhard feels that a fight is beneath his dignity. Instead, his strategy, as one aide puts it, is to remain silent and "let the whole thing run out of steam." Constitutionally, he cannot be ousted unless a majority of the Bundestag can agree in advance on a successor, and that is out of the question as long as Erhard wants to stay. He realizes that the potshots are intended to wear down his will and lead him to resign. The Chancellor seems to have no such in tent, confided to a visitor last week: "I will survive all this...