Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Broadway cast of 50 went through their singing, dancing paces last week as a musical skit called The Magic Man opened General Motors' 1961 Motorama of 36 new cars at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Not in the show were some cheery lines spoken by short (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired Frederic Garrett Donner, 58, General Motors' board chairman and its chief executive since 1958. The world's largest industrial corporation, announced Donner, plans to spend $1.25 billion next year to expand and develop its worldwide (21 countries) auto empire, testifying to its faith in "continued...
...luxury-size compacts-Buick Special, Olds F85 and Pontiac Tempest -then in the clay-model stage. At first skeptical of the compacts-he prefers the term small cars-Donner now thinks that the auto industry has been "witnessing a series of changes that may prove little short of revolutionary over the long run." But Donner does not feel that the compacts will sweep all before their path. He still expects the majority of G.M.'s customers to buy larger cars. Says he: "The challenge of the marketplace is one that calls for all our skills in design, in production...
Union members continued working while union and company negotiators haggled fruitlessly in 100 bargaining sessions. One day short of a year after the contract expired, the Mine & Mill union struck. The union's members, having been warned to prepare for the strike, had a good backlog of savings. Three "strike stores" were set up to supply free food and clothing to union members; a soup kitchen was set up for picketing bachelors. Idaho Governor Robert Smylie approved state welfare for the striking families over management objections...
Divorce Revealed. Joseph ("Socks") Lanza, 59, once-tough labor extortionist whose short-lived 1957 parole made headlines as a political scandal; by Ellen Connor Lanza, 50, a plump blonde who sobbed, "Don't worry, honey" when Lanza was led back to jail; after 19 years of marriage (best man: Gangster Frank Costello), no children; six months ago in Mexico, while Socks was still in prison...
...first of these eleven short stories, a man and his wife, living a life of crushing respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales...