Word: wife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skimping in a lot of little ways-buying cheaper meats, turning out unneeded lights, doling out quarters instead of dollars to their five children-Steelworker Frank Sekula, 41, and his wife Betty have managed to stretch their savings far enough to meet their necessary outlays without piling up any new debts. Betty Sekula, veteran of many strikes, has only a faint trace of bitterness in her voice when she says: "I don't think that either side in this strike is thinking of the betterment of the men. I don't see where we're going...
...shoving big purchases off into the post-strike future, many strikers are running into debt. Steelworker John Novasich had some savings piled up when the strike started, but now he is a month behind on his mortgage payments, has yet to pay the doctor bill for the operation his wife underwent last June, and is wondering how he can scratch the $160 he still owes on his son's tuition at Youngstown University...
...close friend to Stanley Spector, 35, a professor of Far Eastern Affairs at St. Louis' Washington University, and to his family. She was Professor Specter's secretary and a dedicated scholar in Oriental studies (she could speak Mandarin); she had lived with Spector and his wife Juanita and three children since 1956, accompanied the Spector family to Singapore last year. Spector himself had flown home to St. Louis from Singapore, and his family, with Lynn, followed aboard Utrecht...
Jeremy R. Azrael '56, Teaching Fellow in Government, one of the 22 Americans, spent the past academic year at Moscow University. He and his wife lived in the 30-story skyscraper dormitory that forms the heart of the university. Azrael studied Russian newspaper files and was permitted to interview a few Soviet industrial managers for a Harvard doctoral dissertation on the impact of industrialization under the first two Five Year Plans. Mrs. Azrael studied the Russian language and taught English privately to a Moscow schoolboy...
...never manages to convey the internal conflict that threatens to destroy him. Perhaps this is not his fault, for Sartre has created a John Proctor who is more of a symbol than a tragic hero. At any rate, acting laurels must go to Simone Signoret, who plays Proctor's wife with a combination of puritan pigheadedness and feminine warmth that makes her the only completely convincing character in the film. Director Rouleau's portrayal of Deputy Governor Danforth, the prosecutor, is so blunt that even in his moments of doubt about the justice of his own proceedings, he fails...