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...already been agreed to in a contract. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock noted that two of his contracts?with Caterpillar and John Deere?call for raises during the three-month freeze. He threatened to sue, and added: "If this Administration thinks that just by issuing an edict they can tear up contracts, they are saying they want war. If they want war, they can have...
...republic") were shouted down by mobs of starkers tribesmen. Those who actually put on clothes had them torn off their backs by uncompromising sans-culottes and were forced to eat the shreds. Troops had to quell a riot that broke out near Moroto, the dusty district capital, when the edict was proclaimed...
...massive Italian-American Unity Day Rally brought thousands to Columbus Circle in Manhattan, including virtually every politician in the city. The next month, Attorney General John Mitchell announced that "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" were no longer to be used in Justice Department and FBI reports and releases; a similar edict from Governor Nelson Rockefeller affected New York State releases...
...delight in taking this opportunity to extend our sincere felicitations for your midwinter prosperity," said the polite police edict to hotelkeepers in Osaka, Japan. "We also call your attention to a recent case in which a 'pink movie' leaped into the living rooms of some of our citizens from a hotel equipped with a video-tape recording machine. No such leakage will be repeated...
...fact, yesterday was the deadline for the departure of some 100 dogs, Harvard housing, according to an edict handed down by the Committee of Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). Even Ruth, a chicken, is supposed...