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...area are hard to beat. A Rhodes scholar who took honors in jurisprudence at Oxford (B.S., M.A.). he rose from a Milwaukee practice to dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, was appointed Under Secretary of Labor because of his definitive books on fast-changing workmen's compensation laws and on the social security system. Ike read A Republican Looks at His Party while convalescing from his ileitis operation, sent for Larson and had long talks with him while trying to put Eisenhower Republicanism into scholarly terms...
...Kierdorf, 56, bull-voiced business agent of Flint's Teamster Local 332 and one of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa's 40-odd crooked business agents (i.e., personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid and lit a match. Then they dumped...
...wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they must take. No one can read it without briefly sharing the sickness...
Much government work will be done in Brasilia with Kubitschek in residence, but the airplane-shaped city (TIME, Dec. 30) is still years from becoming the Brazilian government's exclusive place of business. For last week's inauguration, 20,000 workmen toiled through the night under strings of temporary lights to make the palace, the chapel and a hotel ready for use. Sewer and water systems were installed; 80 miles of roadway were paved within the federal district, and 500 homes and six apartment blocks were nearly finished. Of the ministries and the thousands of housing units still...
Still in his 20s and still living in Poland, Marek Hlasko writes the kind of story that the regime must find irritatingly lacking in proletarian joy. The young workmen in The Most Sacred Words of Our Life are indifferent to their jobs, cynical and joyless. The young hero is lyrically awakened by a beautiful love affair with a tender and passionate girl. He leaves her in the morning to rush to work, and discovers that three of his fellow workmen have had the same girl, that she has spoken to them the identical, sacred words of endearment...