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...miracles of the West German postwar recovery was the way a highly unionized nation freely consented to businessmen's arguments that labor must keep its demands down so that German products would be competitive abroad. The sheen of this particular miracle is fading. Last week Karl Van Berk, president of West Germany's 520,000-member Coal Miners' and Energy Workers' Union, declared: "The time for a raise is now or never." Prosperous French Automaker Peugeot, whose parts plant is near the Swiss border, has traditionally relied on local farmers for workers. But this year...
...varsity's Eric Johnson took the dive by 0.43 points over Dennis Berk, for the only real Crimson win. In the 200-yard backstroke, the varsity's Gary Pildner swam his fastest time of the year, 2:17.8, keeping neck and neck with both Jim Dolbey and Ed Alexander until the last lap, when the two Elis pulled ahead...
...Yale (Dolbey, Fleming, Jecko, Robinson). 220-yd. freestyle--won by Gyorffy (Y); 2. Chase (Y); 3. Ulbrich (H). Time--2:08.9. 50-yd. freestyle--won by Bronston (Y); 2. Hunter (H); 3. Lusk (Y). Time--23.2. Dive--won by Johnson (H); 2. Berk (Y); 3. Conklin (Y). Points--74.55. 200-yd. butterfly--won by Jecko (Y); 2. Bissell (Y); 3. Schellstede (H). Time...
Died. Lionel Sebastian Berk Shapiro, 50, Canadian novelist, longtime foreign correspondent; of cancer; in Montreal. A top moneymaker among Canadian authors, Shapiro seined his best haul in 1955 when the Book-of-the-Month Club picked up The Sixth of June, the story of a love affair and its relationship to the invasion of Normandy, which also won the Governor General's award for fiction, became a Hollywood movie...
WILLIAM WILKSHIRE PHYLLIS BERK New York City...