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STRIKES Still in the Trenches The 26-union strike against the nation's copper producers-longest walkout in U.S. history against virtually an entire industry-last week dragged into its eighth month. Though the unions and major copper companies remain as far apart as ever, a few small cracks have appeared in the costly deadlock...
...strike-leading United Steelworkers union and a subsidiary of American Metal Climax, Inc., have agreed on a new contract for A.M.C.'s huge Carteret, N.J., smelter, source of 10% of the U.S. domestic supply of refined copper. Terms: a $1.07-an-hour increase in wages, pensions, health and welfare benefits, raising hourly pay to a range of $3.11 to $4.24. It was the second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich...
...copper came from Cyprus, the tin from far-off Britannia, and the Greeks wrought the ensuing alloy, bronze, in myriad forms: vases, swords, tripods, safety pins, mirrors, votive statuettes, household icons and colossal public statues. Most of the large statues have been lost, broken up or melted down, but thousands of graceful hand-sized household objects and prized miniatures remain. Though fragmented and stained with the crusts, scars and patina of age, they nonetheless offer spirited insights into classical days and ways...
...lineage to Paul Klee, and dub him "the juggler of modern art." He was given a one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1964, helped represent West Germany at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Last month his open cube of wire-works and quivering copper balls, Olymp, became one of the four purchase awards winners at the Guggenheim's international exhibition of sculpture in New York...
...about Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper strike (which has caused an increase in imports of the metal), patching up L.B.J.'s tattered ties with big business...