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Heath had earned his most serious problem in one respect by his unbending resistance to the miners' demands during the first four weeks of the strike. They had asked for a 25% catch-up raise over their minimum pay range of $36.80 to $78 a week, far beyond the 8% national wage guideline that Heath was determined to hold. But the miners' well-justified grievances (see box, following page) had won them wide public sympathy, and their determination matched Heath's own. As the coal supplies of power stations ran down, the government belatedly acted, won emergency...
Finally, in the two mile relay, Clayton ran the anchor leg, and again had to play catch-up--which he did as Harvard won in 7:55.3, more than two seconds ahead of Yale...
...different defenses we used helped us win the ball game," coach Bob Harrison said after the game. "But you have to credit Northeastern with one helluva game. They got an early lead and forced us to play catch-up ball," he said...
...Catch-Up. All could blame their immediate troubles on the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, a willful band of 13,000 men in an industry of half a million. The signalmen, who earn an average $3.87 per hour, walked out over a pay demand that would bring them a 55% wage increase in 36 months-better than one-third more than the package most other rail brotherhoods have accepted. Railroad managers argued that a "leapfrog" settlement with the signalmen would only produce new catchup demands from other unions...
...thirds of the gain in G.N.P. was due to catch-up orders in the auto industry after the strike. The trend of overall industrial production was disappointing. After increasing early in the quarter, factory output fell in February and rose only .2% in March, to 165.2% of the 1957-59 base. Moreover, some of the quarter's steel production was merely the result of hedge buying by customers against the likelihood of a strike in August. General Motors, for example, is building a 90-day steel supply, compared with its normal 30-day stockpile. Steel customers are thus creating...