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...What! As conductors go-and they do go: into their 70s, 80s, even 90s -Karajan at 68 is a comparative youngster. But following serious surgery for a slipped disc last year, his four-day concert of masterpieces seemed all the more remarkable. He takes no medicine and still experiences pain. In an infrequent interview, with TIME Music Critic William Bender, he dispatched the subject of pain fast: "So what! I had a long time to think during seven weeks in the hospital. Now everything is such a joy, the bread I eat, every step. It's a new life...
...must game and no matter how boring the Giants-Seattle game is, Phyllys George revives and sustains you through that snoozer, and the Rams-49ers tilt after that. Fatigue settles in around 7:45 p.m. and after a quick gargle with Gatorade, you black out to end your vegetable four-day weekend...
...negotiating goal, the four-day work week has been an occasional element in the United Auto Workers' industrial theology at least since the 1960s. After signing a new three-year contract that should end the three-week strike of 170,000 auto workers at the Ford Motor Co. in a matter of days, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock proudly announced a sighting of the promised land. The Ford pact, he announced at a Detroit press conference, "goes far beyond" previous contracts. In fact, he said, "we are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
...twelve more days over three years to the 33 paid days off that Ford workers already enjoy-five in the contract's second year and seven in its third. The additional days off fell far short of the twelve per year that the union had initially demanded, and the new holidays will have to be sandwiched between two working days, rather than added to weekends or existing holidays. But when Detroit and the union next wrangle in 1979, the U.A.W. could use its 1976 Ford contract as a springboard for leaping closer to a real four-day week...
...most active and effective of the Ford children by far is Jack, who not only looks like a cowboy but smokes Marlboros. Tall (6 ft.), blond, ruggedly handsome and beguilingly informal, he flew off on a four-day tour of the Midwest last week carrying a green knapsack decorated with a KEEP BETTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE button. People often confuse the Ford sons and push their way up to Jack to say, "Gee, Mike," or "Gee, Steve, can I have your autograph?" Rather than embarrass anybody, Jack signs the appropriate name. One of Jack's recurring problems...