Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though labor's political tent is held up by Democratic lodgepoles, the big chiefs of U.S. unions got up a sentimental $20-a-plate testimonial dinner in Washington last week for Labor Secretary James Paul Mitchell. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer William Schnitzler toasted Mitchell as a proved "friend of the working men and women of this country," although in an unsympathetic Administration it sometimes appeared that he was "fighting with both hands tied behind his back." Said Amalgamated Clothing Workers' spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky: Mitchell's is "one appointment that we believe reflects great credit...
Free tours of the Yard and various Harvard buildings will continue during the Summer School session. Weekday tours, led by members of the Crimson Key Society, will leave from the red and white striped tent near Massachusetts Hall...
...Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist mecca, the festival has nonetheless lured nearly 1,000,000 theatergoers, for a box-office gross...
...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...
...government that had so long scorned Boris Pasternak, now gave grudgingly of its best to save him. An oxygen tent was rushed to rambling, weatherbeaten Dacha No. 6 in Peredelkino, 15 miles from Moscow. Professor Nikolai Petrov, a cancer specialist from the Kremlin clinic, strove desperately to win a few more hours from eternity with another blood transfusion. Pasternak asked wearily: "Is it necessary...