Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...
Eighty-Two Obligations. The quiet man who has done all of this is a 55-year-old bachelor who was born in a lakeside castle in Sweden of a long line of aristocrats and intellectuals. Despite his athleticism (mountain climbing, cycling), slope-shouldered Dag Hammarskjold has a mild and even frail appearance. He converses sedately in four languages (excellent Swedish, English and French, adequate German), and when he sees a listener has got his drift, will often finish up, "and so forth...
...cold enough to freeze the marrow, and are the real source of the term "sick comedians." Chief among them is Lenny Bruce, who whines, uses four-letter words almost as often as conjunctions, talks about rape and amputees, and deserves distinction of a sort for delivering the sickest single line on record. Taking a minority view of the Leopold-Loeb case, he said: "Bobby Franks was snotty." In a class by himself is Jonathan Winters, who finds material in such experiences as being tested for inguinal hernia, enjoys discussing what it is like to be naked in front...
Back from negotiating a political settlement in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week put his hand to some pressing business in his own state: a 25-day strike of railroad trainmen on the Long Island Railroad, the busiest U.S. commuter line. Neither labor nor management showed any sign of budging, but Rocky was in a mood to push. He summoned railroad executives, union officials, state and federal mediators. Early one morning, they trooped into his sleek, grey-carpeted Manhattan office. Rockefeller briskly ushered management and union men into different rooms and closed the doors behind them...
...Lionel, Medaris will earn $50,000 a year, plus an option on 20,000 shares of Lionel stock pegged at 95% of last week's price. He intends to develop Lionel's standard lines of trains and toys, but also to expand gradually into grownup electronics (Lionel proposed a merger with Anton-Imco Electronics Corp. last June). He does not plan to go after Government contracts. Says he: "Development of a large military line is not our prime objective. I don't plan to create a corporate image that depends on the vagaries of the defense business...