Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That Vice President Ford is "a politician who projects complete sincerity" [Feb. 25] seems a harmless enough statement to me, but I think it somewhat blindly contributes to overlooking other characteristics of Mr. Ford's that may finally add up to be more pertinent...
Neither the Publisher's Letter nor the article about postal rates [Feb. 25] can sway my opinion: TIME can afford to pay its share for our service to bring the public better service...
...French Foreign Minister Jobert's accusation that the U.S. is attempting to dominate Europe both politically and economically [Feb. 25] is typical French sour grapes...
...Correction: the picture is captioned "Indonesia's Sungai Gerong Refinery on the River Musi at Jakarta" [Feb. 25]. Anyone who has lived there knows that Sungai Gerong is on the Musi River near Palembang, on the island of Sumatra. Jakarta, on the island of Java, is far away...
...strike was called, closed at $8 the Friday before the settlement. Quite as important, National Labor Relations Board and court decisions during the long battle consistently favored the strikers. When the NLRB ruled early last month that Farah must let union organizers enter his plants (TIME, Feb. 11), he apparently decided that further resistance was futile. He permitted a poll, and 67% of Farah's workers voted for the union. Indeed, stories spread that Willie quietly passed word to the workers that he would not be disappointed to see the union win in order to end the strike...