Word: fee
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...volatile Democratic Senator Wayne Morse delivered a lecture on labor legis lation to the Toledo local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Last week Wayne Morse, the only Democratic Senator who voted against the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill last year, volunteered that he had collected a standard lecture fee, $500 and expenses, from the Teamsters for his Toledo talk. Then he made a fine distinction: the fee was paid by the local, not by International head quarters. Said Morse primly: "I wouldn't accept a fee from [Teamster Boss] Jimmy Hoffa...
...break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf excerpts from Wagner, Mahler. Said she before going onstage last week: "I fee every word, but I have to keep the feel ing under control. I sing Das Lied as if I'm looking on, not as if I'm living...
...could do little about Etobicoke. The Canadian town is not only outside FCC jurisdiction, but the Telemeter closed-circuit system uses leased cables, not the public air waves. Affirmative results are piling up. Of 13,000 homes that are potential FeeVee customers, close to 4,000 have subscribed (initial fee: $5). New installations of the coin boxes-they fit any standard TV set-are going on at the rate of 100 a day. With a choice of three pay channels, stay-at-home patrons are happily shelling out for first-run movies (a sampling: A Summer Place, The Gazebo, Sink...
Similar questions were asked in the other 60 million households around the country as census takers defied barking dogs, splashed through floods, endured insults and threats to earn their $13-a-day fee. At one dwelling out of four, the census takers left long questionnaires to be filled out and mailed. From these, the Census Bureau hopes to count freezers, radios and TV sets, etc., will make a study of transportation habits, age groups, in come and population shifts...
...with a complete, ready-to-go merchant fleet-the Black Star Line-which saved Ghana so much in foreign exchange that the Nkrumah government recently was able to buy out Zim's 40% share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which will be West Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen...