Word: apprenticeship
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...first time had the leisure to read and to argue Marxist dialectics-with his fellow convicts). Before Tito was ready for his famous World War II role as the ruthless partisan fighter against not only the German invaders but his anti-Communist countrymen, he served a tough apprenticeship as a Communist underground agent, using false names and passports, surfacing occasionally in Vienna, Istanbul, Paris. In Zagreb he mostly posed and lived as a wealthy engineer. He went frequently to Moscow and was not always sure, during the purge frenzy of the 1930s, that he would come back alive...
Moving into the top job in 1949, after a 13-year apprenticeship broken by three years in the Navy, 29-year-old President Percy, McNabb's protege, drew a bead on amateurs who wanted the simplest kind of inexpensive equipment. He brought out a $39.95 movie camera that was $40 cheaper than other models Bell & Howell was selling. It was $10 cheaper than the company's least expensive prewar camera, even though assembly-line wages had risen from 40? to $2 an hour. Then Percy went to work simplifying his machines. Simultaneously, he sharply increased Bell & Howell...
...Augsburg Apprenticeship. The solid routine of conducting he learned after the war as assistant conductor at the Augsburg Opera (where he also occasionally tinkled the triangle in the pit). In 1953 he tried out (with 64 other applicants) for the job of music director at Aachen. With a piano score Sawallisch prepared Aachen's cut version of Tannhäuser, learned on his way to the podium for the last act that a 20-page cut had been restored, sailed through the intricate music at sight without a bobble. He was promptly hired...
TAFT-HARTLEY amendments this year stand good chance of passage. Reason: Labor Secretary Mitchell is bringing together union and management leaders from separate industries, having them suggest amendments to which both groups agree. First such conference brought agreement to amend passages covering construction industry's representative elections, apprenticeship and multiemployer bargaining...
Born for Tomorrow. The Petrovs were children of peasants. First war, then the Revolution, disrupted the life of the primitive villages in which they were born-his in Siberia, hers near Moscow. The two entered the sinister service of the MVD, after apprenticeship in the Red Youth Organization, as happily and naturally as ambitious U.S. youngsters would take a job with General Motors. Each had early experiences of hardship that evoke the lower depths of Gorky. (Evdokia was hung by her heels in a barn and whipped by a grandfather because she had picked a cucumber; Vladimir went hungry because...