Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Yet, since Lodge's strong statement in the U.N., the State Department has done nothing more than register regular fortnightly requests-which the Soviets as regularly ignore-for permission to interview the imprisoned men. The department has skipped from one excuse to another to explain its inaction: first it...
The wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship...
Labor unions, unlike duchies or debts, are not customarily passed down from father to son. Except in the Carpenters' union. From the time he was a schoolboy, Maurice Hutcheson was groomed as carefully as any prince to take over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which...
Under Maurice's leadership, the Carpenters continued to thrive. Membership grew to 850,000, and the members boasted that theirs was the largest craftsmen's union in the world. Maurice, as quiet and dutiful as his father was bombastic and domineering, rarely had anything to say. In the...
Three years ago, silent Maurice and two other union officials were indicted on charges of bribing a state official and making a fast $81,000 in land sales for a scandal-scarred Indiana highways project. (They later turned the money over to the state.) When a Senate committee pressed him...