Word: chieftains
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...tied their wage increases to the cost of living, had seen their wages soar up-and would now see them dip a bit. In St. Louis, 25,000 employees of the International Shoe Co. faced such a wage cut. So did 380,000 at General Motors. Old A.F.L. Chieftain William Green hinted, in as unincriminating a way as he could, that maybe there wouldn't be so many workers asking for fourth-round increases...
...roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
...tightly knit movement. Peru, a politically backward country, had no mass party to take its place. But Haya's future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista: "I don't think Haya killed Graña-but I believe Graña killed Haya...
...renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
...guerrillas recoup so quickly was explained last week by a Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent...