Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the color of Pasternak's eyes? Brown as on your cover or "liquid, steel-grey" as in the story...
...carrots are cooked, the carrots are cooked," blared Radio Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other...
...plaintive entry in the Yule log at Honolulu police headquarters: a crew of canny thieves got into the sumptuous home of venerable (76) Multycoon (steel, cement, jeeps, aluminum) Henry J. Kaiser, filched a $500 watch and a sackful of other expensive trifles from underneath the Christmas tree...
...have brought some surprising changes in unions. John L. Lewis, who once could stir up a national crisis with a strike threat from his mighty, 600,000-strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will hit 50% by 1968. In all U.S. manufacturing, it has climbed from...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The very fact that this show has survived its title (Goodbye . . . But It Doesn't Go Away) suggests that it is worth a look. An oldie (first produced 31/2 years ago) about an old problem: a traveling salesman trying to figure out why life has not paid him the commission he thinks he deserves...