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...spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble over assembly-line speeds. The union agreed to new negotiations on wages...
Teachers complained of absenteeism after all-night initiations. Parents were fed up with having their daughters come home with egg in their hair. Principal T. Guy Rogers of the Thomas Jefferson High School had another complaint: "We have had athletes who are not willing to play with non-fraternity boys." Other principals complained of snobbery: most fraternities wouldn't take in Mexican-American students...
...began, as so many things begin, over cocktails. The River Valley Club is an unpretentious looking boat club on the Ohio, but its members are the rich and elite of Louisville, Ky. who tie up their cruisers there to drink and talk and play all-night poker. Church for most of them used to be a place for christenings, weddings and funerals-and perhaps for a service on Christmas and Easter. But somehow, during the war, the River Valley members began to find themselves talking about how the center of each community should be its church-and there...
...Association is also urging stores to keep their lights on all night. Already some property owners have made all-night lights a condition in their leases, and most new leases will contain this clause...
...Forced Landing?" The U.S. Army was slightly embarrassed by its unexpected guests. Should they be returned as deserters, or kept as political refugees? At first the State Department ordered the men returned to the Russians, then changed its mind. After an all-night teletype discussion between Vienna, Washington, Paris and General Lucius Clay's headquarters in Berlin, it was decided, on the precedent of the Kasenkina case, that the Russians would not be handed over to the Red army. Colonel General Vladimir Kurasov, Russian commander in Austria, searched four days for the missing plane, finally learned its whereabouts...