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...bearers of light Made bold retreat Silent dignified farewell Pomp and splendour, saving grace The spoilt child Amidst a thousand shells Withdrew...
...cremated in the London suburb of Mortlake. Though his solicitor had asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With the flowers came a note: "To Stephen Ward, victim of British hypocrisy." Explained Tynan: "British society created him, used him, and ruthlessly destroyed him. The Establishment has closed its ranks around its body...
...Young Americans for Freedom, the largest conservative student organization, is expected to be especially vocal at Indiana's Bloomington campus. The Big Ten school withdrew from NSA last spring, thanks largely to a campaign by the local YAF chapter...
...Negroes (60 to 80-odd). They get up to $25 a day, although none of them ever worked on a train before. They are pawns, lucky pawns, in a bitter chess game between the Southern and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Traveling an independent track, the Southern withdrew from the 195-company united front that U.S. railroads have presented in their work-rules battle with five railroad operating unions. Instead, the Southern has carried on its own fight in its own way against outmoded work rules, particularly the rule requiring a fireman in the cab of every diesel...
...1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...