Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to fall ill was a Cleveland social worker. Her symptoms fitted infectious mononucleosis. also called glandular fever. This is a little-understood (presumably viral) infection that is maddeningly persistent but rarely fatal, sometimes runs like a plague through institutions. That is what it did. Nurses at the hospital were soon dropping like flies: ten one day, 15 another. With 56 nurses and 23 other staff members out. the famed old Royal Free had to shut its doors for the first time in its history, transferred most of its 240 patients to other hospitals...
...Year Itch. In London, on trial for attempted murder. Metal Worker Sidney P. Tucker. 47, was accused by the prosecutor of making two motorcycle runs at his estranged wife, then dismounting and kicking her while shouting, "I've waited 20 years to do this...
What emerges is a surprisingly good movie. Aircraft Worker Jack Kelly stops to pick up a hitchhiker (Vince Edwards) and the next moment is looking into the business end of a pistol. Following orders, he turns off on a side road where two other badmen join forces with the first. Disgusted by the emptiness of Kelly's wallet, the leader, John Cassavetes (who starred as a juvenile delinquent in ABC's memorable TV Crime in the Streets), wings a couple of shots past his head. The gang then attempts to sell Kelly's car, and failing...
...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
...member of the Guild, I should be a member of the Communist Party, which . . . was making the actual decisions in the Guild." He broke with the party during a 1937 strike at the Eagle, he said, because he was asked to take part in beating up a nonstriking fellow worker. His secret party record dogged him for 15 years, and three years ago he resigned as boss of the Government radio station in Germany, RIAS. rather than face a loyalty check. Said Lewis: "I'd been living with this dark secret and I was still trying not to divulge...