Word: boyds
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Negotiations were suspended in June but resumed again several weeks ago when the dining hall and housekeeping workers returned to work with the start of the new term. After J. Boyd Britton, vice-president of Radcliffe and the College's negotiator, made what he called the College's "final offer," the union's representatives called a membership vote yesterday afternoon. A majority of the employees voted to reject the offer and authorize a strike, but the representatives later agreed with Britton's proposal to delay action...
Price Scare. The industry is understandably jubilant. At a time of year when they are often backing down, automen are happily revising earlier forecasts upward. Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, in one of the year's more conservative estimates, predicts that 9.3 million car sales are pretty much a certainty. That might very well push 1968 over 1965, when the total sales, including 575,000 imports, added up to a record 9,313,912 cars...
...idea of a vacation?" runs a current Washington gag. Answer: "He puts on a sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain...
...traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional 2,439 air controllers. Last week they scored another when Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd warned that Washington would limit traffic at New York airports unless the aviation industry took steps to relieve the congestion...
...original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...