Word: workers
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...paramount issue. The Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia, said he would rather not vote for a Roman Catholic, but retired Bishop Robert E. L. Strider, Dr. Campbell's predecessor, gave Kennedy his warm endorsement. Anti-Catholic pressures and threats forced a Kennedy worker to stop distributing literature and with draw from the campaign in tiny Parsons...
Though weak at the polls, and with the Communist Deputies from the last Assembly still in jail on charges of sedition, the Reds made their presence felt. A government district worker and a militiaman were ambushed and slain. A band of 60 Communists broke into a rest house north of the capital and stabbed to death Paul Emile Chabert. a Frenchman serving as an education specialist for UNESCO. Later, the Red leader of the band apologized to the murdered man's widow. He had mistakenly thought Chabert was an American, he explained...
...Worker, feeble voice of the U.S. Communist Party, malnutrition is an abiding fact of life. In 1958, down to four pages and 5,600 subscribers from a high of 100,000 in the late 1930s, the Daily Worker escaped the grave only by becoming a weekly. Last week, as if giving the lie to its state of chronic poverty, the Worker announced an expansion move. Beginning this week, said Editor James E. Jackson, 45, the Worker will publish a Midwest edition...
...four-page wrapper for the regular issue. But Editor Jackson spoke bravely of the future: "A modest beginning to a restoration of the larger coverage and service and, we hope, the circulation we once had." Even so, Jackson went right on beseeching partyliners for alms to pay the Worker's debts of about $70,000. For the Worker, prosperity still seems permanently around the corner...
...Miracle Worker. With more feeling than art, Playwright William Gibson draws an outline of the early childhood of Deaf-Mute Helen Keller, leaves it to be filled by the uncompromisingly excellent acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...