Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widespread and vigorous. In fact, however, dues-paying membership of all groups totals less than 18 per cent of the College, and even this figure ignores double-membership and the flock of joiners whose last "activity" may be plunking down $1.50 for the privilege of belonging. In the Liberal Union, for example, only 15 of 50 members "regularly attend business meetings," and such is the general pattern. Furthermore, a number of clubs appear "rather relaxed," as one president wryly said, and even "active" members do little...
...Crimson team has been practicing about six hours a week during the last month for coming matches against other members of the Eastern Rugby Union. Its next game will be with the New York Rugby Football Club April 18 on Soldiers Field...
...second seeming contradiction is that this work is a startling fusion of primitivism at its most potent, and of high classicism. The two idioms have been blended before by Picasso, but previously this union has been a clear adaptation of the primitive to a European, specifically French vision. This time he unites both without compromise...
...also learned that the foreign ministers of the Western Big Three and West Germany plan to meet in Paris April 20, or possibly a week later, to complete strategy for the talks with the Soviet Union at Geneva...
That was 22 years ago. Since then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie...