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Despite the promise of her voice, there were those at Milan's La Scala in 1956 who wondered if Madame Butterfly should be 5 ft. 10 in. in her zori. But American Soprano Anna Moffo went on to make a dazzling operatic debut, and since then Cio-Cio-San has been one of her favorite parts. Last week Anna had a chance to restudy the role in Butterfly's homeland. On her first visit to Japan, she wasted no time becoming acclimatized. To the delight of the tourists, she tripped through Tokyo's Chinzanso Gardens...
...approval - by only a 44-to-41 vote - to a much more limited measure granting authority to reimpose controls on companies that violate formal price-restraint agreements. But even that proposal must still get final approval in the Senate and then the House, where it faces strong opposition. AFL-CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are putting heavy pressure on Democrats to kill all controls, which they contend held wages down while letting corporate profits soar. In the same vote, the Senate also endorsed a measure to create a new agency to replace the COLC. It would have...
...leader of the California AFL-CIO yesterday indicated his support for the Harvard printers' strike by refusing to give a scheduled speech to the graduation ceremony for members of the Business School's trade union program...
John F. Henning, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, said Harvard should accept the demands of the Graphic Arts International Union workers for higher wages. After he was told that some of the striking printers were paid $40-50 per week less than other unionized printers in the Boston area, Henning called the difference "incredible...
Negotiations were scheduled three weeks ago, but A&P cancelled them after the UFW boycott was endorsed by the AFL-CIO. UFW negotiators speculated at that time that A&P wanted to assess the effect of the endorsement before going to the bargaining table...