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...votes, just one short of a majority. The candidate of the Marxists, Old Socialist Pietro Nenni, ran a poor second, with 408 votes. Next day, Leone finally made it with 518 votes-and without the support of the Communists, who had desperately wanted to be kingmakers. After a deadlock that left some Italians wondering whether their country was really ready for democracy, Italy at last had a President...
...played all year," Harvard Coach Bruce Munro said. Both teams started the game strong but Harvard appeared to have the upper hand in the first quarter, while the Bruins controlled the pressure in the second period. The teams left a firm field at intermission, knotted in a scoreless deadlock...
...members found themselves at odds with not only the five business representatives but also the five members representing the public. After several fruitless sessions, including an all-day Saturday meeting, the union leaders reported that no agreement was in sight. The board will try again this week, but its deadlock raises the possibility that the U.S. economy will not be able to enter Phase II on Sunday as scheduled...
...deadlock between Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association drags on, though the tempo of negotiations quickened last week after an earlier meeting with Nixon. The 15,000-member union wants a wage increase of $14.40 to $52.92 a day, a guaranteed weekly wage, and total jurisdiction over loading and unloading cargo containers near the docks. This last demand precipitated the strike and remains the major cause of the impasse. The Teamsters union now claims jurisdiction over loading containers, and the shippers have refused to turn this work totally over...
Major Concession. The agreement was still incomplete last week. Lord Goodman admitted that one point-he did not say which-was not settled. What had happened to bring the two sides even that close after five years of deadlock? For one thing, British Prime Minister Edward Heath has shown himself, by such gestures as selling military helicopters to South Africa last February, to be less concerned about Black African feelings than was his predecessor, Harold Wilson, and more willing to make a compromise settlement...