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...union did not win a complete victory by any means. The UAW had demanded what amounted to a four-day work week and the abolition of the attendance requirement--but the tentative contract states that a worker must be on the job the days before and after his or her scheduled day off to be paid...
...Georgian came back from his four-day tour feeling "very, very pleased" with the way things had gone for him and for Ticket Mate Walter Mondale, who had been barnstorming in the Midwest and the East. Carter displayed a sure sense of timing on his trip, a confidence that fell short of cockiness, and even an occasional flash of wit. In Des Moines, he remarked that he was not really campaigning at all-he was just letting people know that his official campaign would begin with a Labor Day address at Warm Springs, Ga. "My wife's in Tampa...
...hour work week in auto plants as a means of expanding the work force. A top Ford official protests that, counting vacations and holidays, workers with ten to twelve years' seniority average a 35-hour week around the year now. The union has often talked about a four-day week, but officials confide that they will not put that demand on the table, because they know the companies would take a strike rather than grant...
TIME Correspondent David Wood sailed on a recent four-day training cruise aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 295-ft., 1,800-ton bark Eagle; he experienced some of the exhilaration that is drawing the crowds to the ships' parade. Wood remembered Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s line in Two Years Before the Mast: "There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship." He also learned, as Dana did, that "it is all work and hardship after all." Wood described a typical scene aboard the training...
...unveiling a 20-ft.-high, 66-ton sculpture of Don Quixote astride Rosinante at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and holding a party for the Fords at the Spanish embassy, Juan Carlos and his blonde Queen jetted to New York for the windup of their four-day visit. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they inaugurated a display of eight Goyas that were lent by Madrid's Prado, including both naked and clothed Majas. In Fort Greene Park, across the East River, Juan Carlos presented a bronze plaque at the monument to the Brooklyn Martyrs...