Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strauss spoke, the fog lifted and the sun shone, drawing an audible gasp from the crowd and changing the scene from monochrome to bunting-bright Technicolor. Mamie Eisenhower and her party walked out on the narrow christening platform. High overhead, perched on a girder, a yard worker sang out, "Be sure and hit it hard. Mrs. Eisenhower." Mamie did. The First Lady swung hard, smashed the chrome-sheathed bottle of champagne expertly against the bow and, as the big green and black boat began to move down the greased ways, she cried, "I christen thee Nautilus...
...Warren, Pa. courtroom last week, Norman Moon, 26, an electrical construction worker, convicted of failure to support his wife, stood up to hear his sentence. "Have you anything to say?" asked Judge Allison Wade, 51. "No," murmured Moon sullenly. Then he reached under his coat, pulled out a .45-cal. automatic and fired wildly at District Attorney Myer Kornreich. Kornreich fled from the courtroom and Moon turned toward the bench. Judge Wade jumped to his feet, shielding himself with a chair. "Don't shoot," he begged. "I'm not going to sentence you." Moon fired twice. The judge...
...collided head-on with a powerful Mau Mau foray. The terrorists turned and fled, but their leader was shot in the throat. Captured alive he proved an important bag. He was Waruhiu Itote, alias "General China," the elusive desperado whose gangs have long dominated Mt. Kenya. An ex-railroad worker who was in the British army in Burma during World War II, "China"' is almost certainly the No. 2 man in the Mau Mau movement. No. 1 (and still at large): scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, who calls himself "General Russia...
...student who wants to help pay his own way through college $599 is an absurd figure at which to stop: even state university expenses far outweigh this. But stop he must. Unless his salary is either fantastically high or lasts throughout the year, the student worker often loses money by carning above that mark. In addition to his tax on salary above $600, his guardian must pay a sizable sum when the student is no longer classified as a dependent...
...McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago Art Institute (her husband Chauncey is president), and a bountiful worker for many charities. The queen, nearly everybody in Chicago agreed, was just right. After all, Athlyn explained, "Mrs. McCormick was a Deering, you know. She's farm implement on both sides...