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...surprisingly, labor relations have also improved. Even though employees were due a 58?-an-hour wage hike this July, to an average of $8.53 an hour, they have agreed to forgo it because of concerns about competition. Labor leaders credit the 100 Club with keeping the company afloat and fostering a new atmosphere of cooperation with management. "Things have been tough," says Henry Sarrette, president of the local union. "But at least we are now in it together." Says Boyle: "I'm a little tired of all those Japanese success stories. What we've done here shows...
...than a plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak louder and far more honestly than the clamor onstage, do we hear the real voice of Leonard Bernstein, struggling to be heard amid all the earnest chatter. Perhaps it is time for Bernstein to forgo the crutch of a text, which has served him so poorly of late, and listen to what his own voice is telling...
...three years have made quite a difference. Chrysler stock is now $27.50, and the Government could clean up if it exercised its right to buy the shares. Therefore, Chrysler Treasurer Frederick Zuckerman last week appeared before the Loan Guarantee Board in Washington and asked the Government to forgo its right to buy the stock. The company, which two weeks ago announced that it was about to repay $400 million of the Government-guaranteed loans, argued that it would have to float a new stock issue to provide the shares for the Government. The result of that action, Chrysler claimed, would...
Most liberal activists wanted for the Senator to make a move. If he chose to run, they would support him. If he chose not to enter the face, they would forgo the attempt to unseat the President. But "here Lowenstein differed" writes Halberstam. "He was determined to go ahead whether or not Kennedy made the race." After an unsuccessful appeal to George McGovern, Lowenstein approached Eugene McCarthy a liberal Senator from Minnesota. McCarthy agreed to head the alternative ticket, and Lowenstein threw his energy into the campaign...
...Michael Novak, a leading conservative critic of the pastoral letter, argues that the U.S. must be ready to use its nuclear arsenal, if need be, "to prevent the most awful aggression against innocent peoples here and elsewhere." In addition, the bishops' proposal that the U.S. and NATO should forgo the first use of nuclear arms against an overwhelming Soviet conventional attack would probably mean that Europe would be lost...