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...union's demand for "30 and out"-voluntary retirement at any age after 30 years of service on a minimum pension of $500 a month. G.M. has 41,000 employees with 25 years or more of service, and, says the company's chief negotiator, Vice President Earl Bramblett, "the possibility of losing such a large number of highly skilled and experienced personnel could be a crippling blow." The company offers instead what might be called "58 and out"-retirement on a $500-a-month pension at 58, with $40 a month deducted for every year a worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Auto Workers Hear the Drums Again | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Private Detail. Most newspapers ignored the rumors and leaks to them of King's extramarital activities, but their existence undermined King's effectiveness just the same. The effect, says Williams, was one of slow political assassination; King was spared it only by the bullet of James Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Posthumous Pillory | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...members "just do not respond to the threat of discipline." Every move he makes will be compared with what U.A.W. members think Reuther would have done, and Reuther had a reputation for squeezing out the last possible penny in bargaining. Woodcock's chief bargaining adversary, G.M. Vice President Earl R. Bramblett, also 59, has worked for the company for 41 years but took over the role as principal negotiator only three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Greek Tragedy in Detroit? | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Boesman and Lena is one of those accounts of unlimited woe that try the playgoer's patience. Boesman (James Earl Jones) and Lena (Ruby Dee) are pitiable South African Coloreds whom God and man have forsaken, and whose only shelter is some abandoned junk on the banks of a muddy river basin. Nature wheels around them like an impatient vulture, and death is the only consolation prize that their life has to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Woe in a Muddy Basin | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

South African Playwright Athol Fugard should bless his actors for breathing vitality into his stillborn script. James Earl Jones pours out his rage at existence like a volcanic river of fire, and Ruby Dee's face is one of those relief maps of pain, torment and humiliation that characterize a life when it is brutal, nasty and interminable. The pair ought to get a bonus in salvage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Woe in a Muddy Basin | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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