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...businessmen, refused to cooperate with ACAS. He rejected its proposal to poll his employees on whether or not they wanted union representation. When ACAS polled the striking workers anyway, they opted for the union. ACAS then recommended that the company recognize APEX. But Ward went to court to contend that the ballot had been improperly conducted...
...with the gifts-and the hard-won mastery of the art of hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been up to .411 when the season moved into July. In June he batted .486-with one astonishing eleven-game...
Every day I see firsthand cancer victims who have had the maximum of "accepted treatments" and are desperately seeking Laetrile. These poor souls not only have their cancer to contend with, they have the devastating side effects of the accepted treatments too. That is why there is a rebellion against the irrational stand of the medical bureaucracy...
...proponents give their plane a clear edge in cost effectiveness and contend that it can hold its own-or better -in terms of offensive capability. They point out that both planes will be able to penetrate Soviet defenses well into the 1980s. But even among B-52 proponents, there is some concern whether the old bird can remain aloft for another couple of decades...
...Shah with urban development, health and educational projects. Edward L. Keenan '57, the new dean of the graduate school, is also a member of the governing board of the university named after the present Shah's father, who was arguably even more brutal than his son. University spokesmen contend that the presence of free-speaking Americans in the institutions with which Harvard is involved will help Iranian students come into contact with ideas that would otherwise be banned in Iran. But Baraheni argues convincingly that Harvard's presence merely lends the regime respectability without altering its repressive nature. SAVAK...