Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fault lay mainly in the tradition-bound French education system, which makes it nearly impossible for a worker to get university training. But Pierre was also partly to blame. In elementary school he was rather bored by his studies, drifted into the two-year "complementary course" that is supposed to end a student's academic schooling at 16, prepare him for further vocational or commercial training...
Unemployment compensation has the advantage of mitigating economic ills with considerable immediacy. An unemployed worker is a man with a suddenly reduced income and purchasing power. An automatic stabilizer, compensation begins immediately when a worker loses his job and tends to maintain his purchasing power...
Individualistic Crew. Owner Mario Peironi provides accordion accompaniments, tends bar occasionally, takes time out to frisk departing bocce bowlers (who sometimes go west with the expensive balls). He also superintends his singers, who are an individualistic crew. Most independent of the lot: Tenor Armido Lembi, a 35-year-old worker in a chocolate factory, who draws bravos when he sings but refuses to show up more than once a week. Says exasperated Impresario Peironi: "God gave him a great gift, and he won't use it. I even offered him a job as bartender, just...
Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election in 1956 entrenched his position. As governor, Joe Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George...
Jacoba ("Joke") Haanschoten, 5, a child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx...