Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Feb. 24--Mass picketing and violence were outlawed yesterday in the million-dollar-a-day Republic Aviation Corp. strike at Farmingdale, N.Y.--but not in time to prevent a new mob brawl...
...studies of store fronts are now familiar, not for the Victorian corsets or the old top hats, but for Atget's treatment of glass and reflection, which is strikingly modern, indeed almost surrealistic. His photographs were in fact first published in a Surrealistic magazine in 1926. The study of a tree stump will also strike many as similar to the contemporary Edward Weston's Point Lobos series. Both in the problems he proposed and in his direct approach to them, Atget was at once a pioneer and a master. This is a rare opportunity to examine the work...
...first government and church authorities beamed on Dolci and his good works, but in time they began to find his excessive zeal embarrassing. Once he went on a hunger strike to force Palermo's government to do something about Trappeto's poor. He won: the government allotted him some $50,000 to begin an irrigation dam in a nearby valley to provide work and water for the local poor. But soon he found himself in trouble with landowners who claimed his dam would drain their own farms...
...many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some problem or other. Last year, after another hunger strike prompted by the death of a child from starvation, Dolci succeeded in wringing a promise from Partinico's mayor that "nobody will ever die of hunger again in this community, and I will do everything in my power to find work for the jobless." But some two-thirds...
SHOCK TREATMENT is being tried by federal mediators in the Westinghouse strike. After agreeing on a settlement formula, both sides insisted on so many stipulations that the mediators walked out on the negotiations to drive home the point that the 18-week strike is not the Government's problem; it can be settled only by union and management working for the benefit "of those 55,000 guys pegging around the sidewalks...