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...deliberate rudeness, in the other with homiletic eloquence. Organized labor has been as cordial to Nixon as to any Republican President in memory, backing him particularly on the war and on law-and-order. But Nixon took the calculated risk of appearing before the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO in Bal Harbour, Fla., a day after it had instructed the labor members of the Pay Board not to cooperate in forming Phase II wage guidelines (see THE ECONOMY). President George Meany even refused a White House request to have Hail to the Chief accompany Nixon's entrance. During...
...they set up separate funds to finance candidates. The National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association hit on making its pensioners pay for political campaigns. Each month, $10 is "voluntarily" deducted from every pension check and put into a fund that has become the largest single contribution to the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education...
Beverly does not have the powerful top notes for roles like Tosca or Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and particularly not for Wagnerian roles like Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung. But she is ideally suited to bel canto, and to the French lyric romanticism of Gounod and Massenet. In these areas she is unbeatable, and even among the diverse other sopranos in this age of great sopranos?Birgit Nilsson, Sutherland, Price, Marilyn Horne, Monserrat Caballé?she more than holds...
...have introduced a resolution for the AFL-CIO convention opening Nov. 18, to take whatever action is necessary, including a national work stoppage or general strike," the executive board of the 500,000 member Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union said...
Several construction union leaders have urged AFL-CIO President George Meany to quit President Nixon's 15-man labor-industry-public Pay Board, which Monday ordered a general 5.5 per cent limit on future pay hikes...