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Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...labor record was due the Teamsters themselves. The proof by McClellan & Co. that Beck had been using their dues payments like a business tycoon spurred Dave-must-go movements in half a dozen key Teamster locals before Beck finally took the hint. The ugly evidence that he could stoop even to profiting on the sale of real-estate equities to the widow of Union Official Ray Leheny (TIME, May 20) turned his retirement into a sooner-the-better situation (although Beck, protesting innocence in that, says that he has since sent the widow a check). But credit was due also...
...Wafra field of the 50-mile-square Neutral Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, meant more than just a new source of oil. For Wafra, it pushed output above 50,000 bbl. a day and increased estimated reserves to more than 5 billion bbl. For a tall, stoop-shouldered American named Jean Paul Getty, it was a multimillion-dollar payoff on a daring gamble...
Under the watchful eye of Soviet "Observer" Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of Russia's ruling Presidium, stoop-shouldered Palmiro Togliatti played it safe, confined himself to abstruse analyses of Marxist doctrine and repeated pledges of allegiance to the Kremlin. Only a few dissident notes were heard, most of them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly...
...Hopper's quiet canvases, blemishes and blessings balance. He will paint an ugly front stoop and the warmth of sunlight on it, or a sooty curtain stirring with the fragrance of an unexpected breeze. He presents common denominators, taken from everyday experiences, in a formal, somehow final, way. The results can have astonishing poignancy, as if they were familiar scenes solemnly witnessed for the very last time. "To me," says Hopper, "the important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling...