Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosion's chain reaction reached 25 of the plant's 57 sheds and shacks, and all eight of the big wooden buildings. Packets of firecrackers shot aloft and burst in the air. As Kent's 300 workers, three-quarters of them women, ran for their lives, many of them crashed into the encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times...
There were many besides Communists who thought that Baylot's strong-arm men were a little too zealous on occasion. Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, protested that some of his worker-priests, arrested in a demonstration, received "treatment unworthy of human beings." (To which Baylot retorted: "I don't care if they're ambassadors, priests, pastors, rabbis, or candy salesmen. If they take part in an illegal demonstration, they will suffer the consequences.") Last April Baylot's cops, on his own responsibility, seized 213,000 copies of the Communist L'Humanité, because...
Sculptor Manzù, who began his career as a stucco worker, is as direct as his work is subtle. "I am religious, yes," Manzù says with feeling, "but I'm not a religious artist-I expect to carve all kinds of things. You can't limit art to religion any more than you can limit religion itself, or life . . . In sculpture my greatest inspiration is the ancient Greeks." Drawing a deep breath, he adds: "I wish I could be as big as they...
Special Kindness. Last week Ohmi was having its strike, and Japan was learning more about K.S.E. In a published complaint, Natsukawa's workers explained how, before each of the day's three work shifts in their clockless factories, they were marched into the factory yard and forced, rain or shine, to sing company songs and recite such uplifting Buddhist promises as, "Today I will make no immoderate demands" or "Today I will not grumble or complain." Once a week every worker, regardless of religion, is forced to attend a Buddhist religious service. At one rally in the plant...
...kind of information from the FBI, some of them lean too far in the opposite direction. They say that they have no way of estimating the reliability of the FBI sources or of putting together the bits and pieces of data. Sometimes the accused employee is such a trusted worker (e.g., Alger Hiss...