Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen Lichtenbaum. 17, who. along with Buffalo's David Krantz. now at Yale, made the highest score on the various N.M.S. tests. The son of a U.S. Treasury civil-service worker in Brooklyn. Stephen graduated top of his class from James Madison High School, won a Westinghouse Science Talent award for a problem involving the theory of numbers. His major at Harvard: mathematics, though he may switch to theoretical physics...
...Thayer (Ted) Watkins, 18. of Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
Tariffs only encourage sliding, inefficient manufacturers to continue in uneconomic industries that require federal protection, says the study. In effect, they are subsidized by consumers. In the mass-production industries, where U.S. wages are far above world scales, Bidwell found that the U.S. worker usually so outproduces low-paid foreign workers that most tariffs and other import restrictions can be safely eliminated. Even in handwork industries, where the cost of labor makes up a large share of the product cost, he concluded that the tariff does little more than bail out the marginal producer...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...
...minor performers--and all the technical aspects of the production--are on the whole excellent. Paul Mann, in the comic part of a social worker, deserves special mention for his performance of a role which is somewhat too long. And the director, John Stin, earns much credit for his intelligent use of George Jenkin's complex sets, even if he, together with the playwright, is responsible for the shapeless aspects of the early parts of the play...