Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...luring guests into his hotels with conspicuous luxury, Larry Tisch has little use for it in his own life. He lives with his wife and four children in a ten-room house in suburban Scarsdale, commutes by train, neither drinks, smokes, nor indulges in any steady hobby. He often works late into the evening, spends his free evenings at home or at Broadway plays or movies (twice a week) with his wife, works hard in fund-raising and community affairs. Larry Tisch is shocked by any suggestion that he might like to relax and enjoy his money. "This...
...union wanted a 3½% raise effective immediately and another 3½% raise in October 1961, plus cost-of-living increases and a two-year contract. To increase job security, the union asked for a guarantee that no work will be farmed out and no overtime worked by some employees while others are laid off. When plants are closed, unneeded employees would be given preference for rehiring at other plants. The company demanded a three-year contract, offered to raise wages 3% immediately and 4% in April 1962, but refused to include a cost-of-living clause that...
...tract-but G.E. refused to extend the contract. At week's end representatives of all I.U.E. locals (which represent 70,000 of G.E.'s 240,000 employees) met in Manhattan, voted to strike. G.E. announced it would keep its plants open for all employees who wanted to work...
...readymade market in textbooks in the decade ahead, U.S. publishers are hard at work trying to anticipate the next step in education. They are keeping a wary eye on teaching machines, now in the testing stage. Harcourt, Brace spent $60,000 building their own, but junked it. Explains Harcourt President William Jovanovich: "We decided it wasn't our field, but we felt we ought to give it a try." If teaching machines are perfected and catch on, the chances are good the publishing industry will soon be selling them too-or putting out books to teach teachers...
...than a dramatization of its wild Irish playwright, tells the humane, hilarious, howlingly off-key story of a young English soldier held hostage in a Dublin brothel, is an irreverent stage piece that is thoroughly good fun. The World of Carl Sandburg, an evening of the poet's work more or less acted out by Bette Davis and Leif Erickson, comes off as an agreeable recital, evoking a poet's world that i dramatically mild and a little ostentatiously benign. And at the Phoenix, Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore sails briskly along in the capable hands...