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Labor leaders contend that such a change has already occurred?for the worse for labor?as a result of the wage-price freeze. They have already presented some convincing evidence in behalf of their claim. What is merely a temporary inequity for 90 days would be an intolerable burden if made permanent, they point out, and that is a possibility to be avoided at all costs. Businessmen as well as labor leaders will undoubtedly be called on to compromise on matters of equity in their negotiations with Connally's council, which will become increasingly active in weeks ahead. The final...
What union officials objected to more than anything else was Nixon's failure to freeze profits along with wages and prices. Unlike employees, they point out, corporations are still free to make as much money as they can. What is more, they contend, business has been given several new ways to make it?by taking advantage of the new 10% investment credit, by using the liberalized depreciation rules announced by Nixon in January, by increasing production as the economy picks up and by not paying previously contracted wage hikes. Although the Administration claims that its rules will stimulate the whole...
Holy skulduggery! Or possibly, holy infringement! Gleeps! at the very least. Batman and Robin think that they have been wronged by Big Business, and their response has been uncharacteristically undramatic. Resorting to the courts rather than their fists, Actors Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) contend that the American Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century-Fox among others never paid them their share of the profits from the sales of $300 million worth of Batman sweaters, T shirts, toys and other bits of fledermausian frippery that were inspired by their TV series. Their asking price: $2,000,000 in compensation...
...court seeking parity with other law professors. They thus increased the pressure being applied by a growing group of nuns and priests who argue that their vow of poverty means that any unneeded earnings should benefit their orders rather than their employers. In their suits, Fathers Broderick and Granfield contend that the university had promised to abolish clerical discounts but did not, and that they are being deprived of their rightful salaries without due process of law. Because they are asserting a right to an already established salary level, the new wage-price freeze probably will not affect their claim...
Both Piper and Cornelius belong to a flock of Britons fascinated by the dream of man-powered flight and undeterred by a fearsome failure rate that goes back to Icarus. At Selsey Bill, Sussex, this month, twelve birdmen gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled...