Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birmingham's best-known Negro leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a tough, thick-skinned, egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...
...making his wife happy at night and miserable during the day. These facts, with the additional fact that Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's simple, sufficient plot. The air in the Porters' dingy attic is thick with a one-way stream of recriminations; Jimmy has no need to beat his wife when he can browbeat her so effectively. At one point she leaves him; eventually she comes back, and the curtain falls on the same situation that prevailed before it rose...
...nine years since Mao Tse-tung took ' power in Peking, China has become shrouded in a fog of ignorance almost as thick as in the days of Marco Polo. Three weeks ago, determined to separate fact from fiction, TIME correspondents in 13 bureaus around the world began a mass assault on the Bamboo Curtain. Their chief weapons: interviews with scores of latter-day Marco Polos ranging from British M.P.s to Argentine M.D.s, plus a mining of the exhaustive studies of Red China now being carried out in U.S. and British universities, and intelligence findings in many nations. Piece...
...Harold Stassen, 51, indestructible and thick-skinned, got on a TV panel show back in Pennsylvania and hit Dump Nixon harder than ever before. He proclaimed that 1) Nixon was "the principal architect of defeat" in 1958; 2) Nelson Rockefeller, suddenly alone among Stassen's four alternatives, was "the man the Republican Party should nominate in 1960 in order to win"; 3) Pennsylvania's 70-odd-vote delegation to the G.O.P. convention in 1960 should be led either by Senator-elect Hugh Scott or by Harold Edward Stassen. As for the President of the U.S., who had chatted...
...part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists of two volumes four inches thick. ¶ Charles A. Rheinstrom, 56, executive vice president for sales, quit American in 1946 after 18 years, went into advertising, came back this year at Smith's request to take on the job of selling jet seats to the public. In the 1930s Charlie Rheinstrom was the first...