Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEETHOVEN: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (RCA Victrola; 8 LPs). Another big package, but at the bargain price of $20. Not everyone agrees with Arturo Toscanini's distinctly brisk, no-nonsense approach to Beethoven. About the heroic first movement of the Third Symphony, the maestro once dryly commented: "Some say this is Napoleon, some Hitler, some Mussolini. For me it is simply allegro con brio." Still, Toscanini's brio was like no one else's, and the NBC Symphony strikes sparks as it builds to one peak of excitement after another, and then softly and precisely casts long incandescent...
...copper's Big Four-Anaconda, Kennecott, Phelps Dodge and American Smelting & Refining-to come to terms with 60,000 strikers. Both agreements involve local operations and thus do not touch the strike's key issue: the 26 unions' demand for a basic change in the bargaining rules. The unions, backed by the full power of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., demand the right to bargain as a coalition within each company, and to set common expiration dates on all contracts. "This is a strike," said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany recently, "that we cannot afford to lose." The copper...
PRESIDENT Johnson probably welcomed returning Korean envoy Cyrus Vance last week with a smile as big as a Texas barbecue. Vance, after all, had just pacified another of our finicky Asian allies--at what must have seemed bargain price: 100 million dollars in additional Korean aid. The calculable cost may indeed have been small. But on the balance, the Vance mission is a sad reminder of the short-sighted statesmanship which has generated America's open-ended Asian commitments...
Though on page 29, The Island apologizes for increasing its price from 15 cents, even at a quarter it's probably the only bargain in the Square...
Route Toward the Top. The route toward the top was plotted by Interstate's $151,250-a-year president, Sol W. Cantor, now 56. A 1932 law-school graduate (St. John's University), Cantor forsook the bar for the bargain basement as soon as he left the class room; he took a $12-a-week buyer's job at Interstate instead of a position in a law firm that would have paid him $10. At the time, Interstate, which had been formed by a 1928 merger of three Midwest department-store chains, was having a rough time...