Word: careys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these five short movements have a delicate and economic intensity, and when played by Robert Koff and John Austin, violins, Carey McIntosh, viola, and Lawrence Lesser, 'cello, they moved the large audience by their probing, occasionally erupting introspection...
...Harvard football player would become an assistant district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn for 20 years...
...Carey softened his demands by dropping the key issue of a cost-of-living escalator, but G.E. turned him down. Since 62 other unions within G.E. have accepted its contract proposals, G.E. refuses to modify them under pressure of the big union that went out on strike. Said G.E. Chief Negotiator Philip D. Moore: "Carey is looking for one concession which he can represent as a great victory that he wrung out of the company. He is a master at taking the skin from a gnat and stretching it over a boxcar. Well, he's not going...
More pressure on Carey to surrender came from another quarter. Rather than call a strike, the I.U.E. representatives negotiating a new contract with Westinghouse Electric accepted the company's offer with only a few modifications that did not raise the cost of the total package...
...differences between the Westinghouse contract and G.E.'s offer were slight. At week's end, Carey could hold out no longer. He agreed to end the strike, accept G.E.'s contract proposals which called for an immediate 3% wage increase plus other benefits which would bring an additional 4% in April...