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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were other differences, but what the Steelworkers' McDonald wanted most was to boost the average $2.47-an-hour pay of his union members by package benefits of some 20? in the coming year, while avoiding the encumbrances of the four-year-and-four-month master contract asked by the industry. (Without making a formal offer, the union let it be known that it might settle for a suitable three-year contract.) What steel's Stephens and the dozen companies most wanted was to keep package benefit increases to 14 or 15? an hour in the coming year...
With respect to William Harvey's June 18 "cutlet" for cheating on examinations (formulae on fingernails and a circular note under his wristwatch crystal): for knowing so precisely what was to be asked on the examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
They are almost entirely Roman Catholic but not quite the kind U.S. Catholics understand. Accustomed to receiving the sacraments only when a priest visits the village, sometimes baptizing their children themselves and often marrying without benefit of clergy,* Puerto Ricans have scandalized many a priest with their casual church ways. But gradually the church has found its way among the burgeoning Puerto Rican flock. The zesty mixture of fun and devotions last week in Manhattan and Chicago was testimony to the church's success...
...middle age, after an unrewarding life as a social worker and factory hand, she moved to Holland's hard-bitten north, where piety and superstition often walk hand in hand. There, she said, she had a personal talk with God who offered her miraculous powers for the benefit of her fellow man, if she would renounce all worldly claims. "Of course," Greet Hofmans said, "I accepted." At God's direction, she moved to Hattem, the baronial seat of the Van Heeckeren van Molecatan family. It was there the royal family found...
...pump [trombone] player who sends me more than Miff Mole"), Switzerland ("Thank you, Angel, for Oscar Petersen's Tenderly"), Poland ("more jamba, boogie"). No letters have been received from Russia, but Manager King heard the program while visiting Moscow and suspects that it is being taped for the benefit of Russian jazzmen who want to learn U.S. arrangements. In Hungary the Voice learned that there is a jazz band that tapes the jazz show every...