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...Board, with a goal of stopping inflationary wage and salary increases, will draw its members from labor, management, and the public. Briefing newsmen before his speech, Nixon said that AFL-CIO president George Meany, United Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock, and Teamsters president I.W. Abel would be members of that board...
Gardner's book gives ample scope to the view that man is more naturally kin to Cain than Abel. Yet it is closer to a more entertaining tradition-the literary monster made real because he has been made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
...getting money they went out on strike for, and I think all hell's going to break loose." Not consulted on the Administration's planning for the freeze, Meany & Co. are determined to play a major role in shaping the post-freeze rules, which Steelworkers Boss I.W. Abel and others suspect could last for "months or perhaps years to come." Although Secretary Hodgson made it clear that one purpose of his fence-mending visit to Meany was to assure him that labor will "have a voice in planning what we are going to do in Phase 2," that was hardly...
...with management representatives. With outsiders, though, they were quiet and cautious. "This is one time when steel negotiations are not going to be decided by the media," said U.S. Steel Chairman Edwin Gott. Even the location of the meetings (in the Shoreham North Hotel) was a carefully kept secret. Abel was registered in a large Shoreham North suite, his refrigerator stocked with tonic water, Danish pastries and sardines...
Dangerous Game. Not until midweek did the bargainers get down to prime issues. Abel presented his demands. One steel executive described them as "somewhere between Venus and Mars." The next day, Larry finally made management's first firm offer. It was promptly rejected. In his debut as management's chief negotiator, Larry irritated union men by his unyielding stand. "Brinkmanship can be a dangerous game," warned union Vice President Joseph Molony...