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...debate over labor contracts, more than one management negotiator has hyperbolically contended that some particularly rash union demand would turn the workers into millionaires. For a few fortunate union members, that is no longer a wild exaggeration-not since the New York Times uncovered the story of Tom Dowd, 39, a labor foreman working on the two 110-story towers that make up Manhattan's World Trade Center. During six years of scheduled work on the project, he stands to earn more than $500,000 in wages. Last year alone Dowd cleared $94,000, and the union of which...
...Americans could agree with Cornell Economist Douglas Dowd, a Berrigan ally: "It would be quite amusing if it weren't so serious." Is it possible that the Berrigans?who, though lawbreakers and rebels, have always preached non-violence?have now turned to violent and bizarre methods? Or is it possible that the Government has drawn monstrous conclusions from flimsy evidence, perhaps taking protesters' idle speculations with total solemnity? The first could help rekindle the fires of protest that have seemed dimmer lately and also revive lingering fear and hate of radicals. The second could again put in question the Government...
...terribly excited about one more western. In 35 years he has appeared in nine plays and made 73 films that have grossed more than $190 million. On Broadway this spring, during ten successful weeks, he re-created his classic portrayal of Elwood P. Dowd, the bibulous dreamer whose pal was an imaginary rabbit named Harvey. But the role of the guileless cowboy caught in a web of goodnatured immorality is as much a part of the Stewart myth as the tremulous, pleasantly nasal accent that has made him the world's most imitated actor this side of James Cagney...
...Pentagon and the demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago convention?both led by some of those now active in the New Mobe?civil disobedience was explicitly excluded from the advance plans. Further, leaders such as Pacifist David Dellinger, 54, Sociology Professor Sidney Peck, 42, and Economics Professor Douglas Dowd, 50, had sought out younger radical chiefs for assurances that there would be no provocation of the police or the military personnel assembled in Washington...
There wasn't much talking in the Harvard dressing room after the Dartmouth game last Saturday, but slumped in a corner in front of a row of lockers, Bob Dowd was quietly saying it all for the Crimson varsity...