Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bait. In Hartford, Conn., when he heard that the police were holding a package with his name on it, Construction Worker Sam Peay hurried down to the police station, soon found his "package": a warrant for his arrest on a reckless-driving charge...
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again. Many a hospital cook with a big family takes home a fatter pay envelope than the chief of the medical staff (380 Israeli pounds, or $292, after 25 years' service...
...Bigger pensions (up from $100 a month to between $170 and $185 for workers retiring at 65 after 25 years of service) and a health program which would increase sick benefits from $26 a week for 26 weeks to $50. Every worker would get a $5,000 life-insurance policy and complete hospitalization...
...guaranteed annual wage to give every laid-off worker a weekly paycheck equal to 32 times his hourly pay rate, e.g., $70.40 a week for a worker making $2.20 an hour v. the $88 he would earn in a normal 40-hour week...
Married. Wogan Philipps, 52, eldest son of Britain's millionaire Baron Milford and unsuccessful onetime (1950) Communist candidate for Parliament; and Tamara Rust, 40, widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...