Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Gary Beban, 21, the thinking man's quarterback who steered the U.C.L.A. Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory in 1966, himself to a Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding collegiate football player last year and a reported $200,000 three-year contract with the Washington Redskins; and Kathy Hanson, 21, his college sweetheart; in Alhambra, Calif...
...York manager named Jo King. "Aretha did everything wrong," recalls Mrs. King, "but it came out right. She had something?a concept of her own about music that needed no gimmickry. She was a completely honest musician." Groomed by Mrs. King, signed to a Columbia Records contract, Aretha began plying a sometimes seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm & blues clubs?with disheartening results. "I was afraid," she says. "I sang to the floor a lot." In the recording studio, she cut side after side with stereotyped pop arrangements ?which sold indifferently. Deep down, she knew what was wrong with...
...Hedley Donovan, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., who addressed graduates of the University of Rochester, talked to them about their "contract" with the U.S. presidency. Donovan noted "a deepening paradox in our American system. We have been getting more and more dependent, as a nation, on a strong presidency; at the same time we have been becoming a more and more democratic society...
...bargaining aim of the United Steelworkers of America, said President I. W. Abel last week, is to win "what people need in order to live." Steelworkers, like everybody else in these inflationary times, seem to need more and more. As his union, whose contract expires July 31, formally opened negotiations in Manhattan with eleven major steel producers, Abel's effort confronted the U.S. with the threat of its first nationwide steel strike since...
...insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that the Steelworkers themselves won two weeks ago in coming to terms on a new contract with the aluminum industry...