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People have been saying things like that about Pastore for a long time. His father, an immigrant Italian tailor, died when his son was barely eight. Not long after that, young John went to work earning his own keep, first as an errand boy in Providence, later in college as a part-time bookkeeper. With a law degree earned in nighttime university courses at the Providence Y.M.C.A., he climbed steadily through a clutch of state-government jobs, from assembly member to Governor in 1945. In 1950 he was elected the first U.S. Senator of Italian parentage. In the Senate...
Trimming the Bureaucracy. Post-Stalin liberalism in the bloc is bringing self-criticism and some slow improvement. The Czech government is turning back to private ownership in such small enterprises as tailor shops, laundries and hat-check concessions. To provide more laborers, it is also trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that...
With all this competition ahead, pioneering TWA is thinking of offering half-hour movies on its shorter-distance flights. Hollywood has clearly invaded the heavens; its problem now is to tailor its products to flying times...
...TAILOR AND ANSTY by Eric Cross. 223 pages. Devin-Adair...
...tailor of the title, an old man living in the mountains bordering Cork and Kerry, was a local oracle who could sit by the hour streeling out Irish tales and songs. Anastasia, his "bitter half," was his chorus. When Eric Cross, an Irish short-story writer, first published The Tailor and Ansty in 1942, they were already something of a legend. Cross tells the stories and the occasional songs as he heard them. They are about talking cats; about the adventures of the "cabogues," itinerant laborers who used to help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings...