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...Nicklaus had a comfortable two-stroke cushion, and Palmer was running out of holes. Like a poker player who has caught his opponent bluffing, Nicklaus raised the ante. "I told myself not to play conservatively for any reason," says Nicklaus, "because if I did, I'd lose. So I went for birdies on every hole. I didn't make them, but neither did Arnie. By the 18th, I still had a two-stroke lead...
Looking for a Cushion. With his union's membership among basic steelworkers down 23% since 1957, McDonald has reason to go easy. Following his lead, the Steelworkers' wage-policy committee last week scrapped its customary pre-bargaining talk of big pay boosts and 32-hour weeks, came out instead with general bargaining goals that management officially hailed as "a more moderate approach than in the past...
...cushion the blow of automation-induced layoffs, the union asked for higher unemployment benefits, guarantees that high-seniority workers would be the last fired and that laid-off workers would have first call on new openings, and that some of them would be retrained for other jobs within the steel industry. To spread available work, the union wanted less overtime, more holidays, longer vacations, paid sabbaticals. Higher wages were only vaguely mentioned. The union is aware that its members want job security more than raises (their pay envelopes are already fatter than those of workers in any other production industry...
...Bruins have won two in a row, and are tied for seventh with Columbia, one game behind Harvard. Only the hapless Lions appear to provide an adequate if not very soft cushion at the bottom of the league for the lagging Crimson...
...cushion the impact of change, the agreement calls for a system of "variable levies" which, at the end of an eight-year transitional period, will replace all existing controls. Import and export prices for farm produce will be set for each country by the Common Market's central executive, which will have the power to set "target prices'' (resembling U.S. support prices) for commodities and buy them for storage when high production forces down the market price. Ultimately, by gradual adjustment of target prices between nations, a loaf of white bread should cost no more in Bonn...