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...January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage board with power to lower wage increases and to impose settlements if necessary. If labor did not agree, Hodgson warned, the President might establish such...
...suspension is the temporary culmination of intensive talks in Bal Harbor, Fla., between government officials and union and management representatives of the construction industry...
...Beatles started it, the hippies spread it, and now long hair and beards are beginning to make it way downtown in Straight City. John Bal, a 24-year-old Manhattan patrolman, wears three commendations for heroism on his blue uniform-and brown hair that falls over the collar of his shirt. Bal's beat is now Central Park's Bethesda Fountain, where the kids in beads and tie-dyed jeans find him groovy. His superiors do not agree; last week he spent over two hours before a departmental hearing. "I like being a cop," Bal says...
...N.A.L.'s di "completely sastrous showing. The party's leaders knew better. To ensure fair elections, the military council had appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...
Whether or not marital infidelity is actually increasing in the U.S., adultery has become almost a lighthearted and guilt-free pastime. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Dr. Leon Salzman of Georgetown University Medical School noted that, contrary to popular thinking, a large number of adulterers are neither anxious nor conscience-stricken. With ridiculous ease, these philanderers convince themselves that an affair is either necessary to maintain their own mental health or a device for allowing them to tolerate a barely compatible husband or wife while still remaining married...