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...increasing popularity of long-term contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation, civic affairs and other fields that will bind the rank-and-file closer to the organization in periods when there are no new contracts to get excited about...
...Meredith, now 51, and National Life's executive vice president, got another selling job. He became president of the New England Council, a post previously held by such eminent New Englanders as former Boston Federal Reserve President Laurence F. Whittemore and Senator Ralph E. Flanders. His task: to bind together the diverse elements of New England's economy into a cohesive unit...
...mystical ties that bind the Commonwealth (née 1926 the British Commonwealth) get more mystical each year. Its 650 millions are not united by allegiance to the Crown (India and Pakistan refuse it), or by common culture, or by language, religion or policy. The nine Commonwealth Prime Ministers gathered in London last week ranged from South Africa's racist Johannes Strydom, a Boer who dislikes the British influence almost as much as he dislikes Indians, to India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who is heard in such surroundings with some deference but little affection. They did not talk...
...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...
...helping underdeveloped areas, the establishment of a worldwide trading corporation centered in and operated by Western Europe could spark the sagging economics of industrial European states by opening up for them new markets and sources of raw materials. In addition, cooperative economic aid activity in Western Europe would bind even more closely together the countries of the North Atlantic area, enhancing that solidarity which is the most potent obstacle to Red political inroads in Western Europe. It might also reduce the fierce export rivalries between the nations of Western Europe...