Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that has since...
...highhanded Studio Boss Jack L. Warner, who spends much of his time commuting between Las Vegas and the Riviera; and 2) William T. Orr, Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls to the studio for seven years at a predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual" rights from rerun TV shows. If the actors make personal appearances, Warners pockets 90% to 100% of their earnings. The studio may cancel...
Warners' contract is nicely geared to the slow-moving needs of the movies, the cowboys insist, but not to the hustle of TV. "In movies," says Garner, who blames his ulcer on life with Warners, "an actor is groomed slowly through bit parts until he's ready for a starring role. He makes only two or three pictures a year. In television, they slap you into the starring role in a series, and you make 26 episodes right off the bat. If the series flops, you're dead. There isn't time to build a personality...
...Offer. The loss to the Government will be greater if the steelworkers walk out again Jan. 26. as they promise to do unless a contract is signed. Trying for a settlement, the eleven-company negotiating committee secretly submitted a better offer while negotiations were recessed. The new offer 1) raised the management proposal on wage increases and fringe benefits slightly (to 30? an hour by the companies' reckoning, spread over three years); 2) increased cost-of-living increases to a maximum of 8? v. 3? previously offered, and 3) proposed a two-man union and management committee...
Plante had good reason to violate the code of his craft, which allows goalies mattresses of protection around their body and legs, but nothing over their faces to protect them from a hard-rubber puck driven at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. Result: pro goalies regularly contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones...