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...spread the available work when unemployment runs high, unions and management have tried a number of ideas: seven-hour days, four-day weeks, summer plant shutdowns, and earlier retirement for older workers. Now drugmaking Parke, Davis & Co. and Local 11-176 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union are trying out another form of share-the-work. Some 450 women workers at the company's Detroit plant have volunteered to take one or two weeks of vacation without pay in order to assure more work for the others. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. frowns upon what it calls...
...grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy, "in what goes on in this country-and especially what you do, sir." Then he strode to Kennedy's new bubble-topped Lincoln and plunged into a giddy, four-day whirl unrivaled in recent capital history...
...Council compulsion to predict the number of travelers who will never get home. The ghoulish guess on highway carnage resounds on TV and radio, runs in routine lament through endless headlines and holiday editorials. Observing tradition, the Safety Council predicted that 450 corpses would litter U.S. highways during the four-day July 4 weekend. By July 5, the estimate proved conservative: 509 car riders had been killed, and "a new record" set. Lamented Safety Council Vice President George C. Stewart last week: "One of the most tragic weekends in our history...
...Meany must not have looked very far, for throughout the four-day conference - held at Unity House, the 1,000-acre Pennsylvania resort owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -signs of rift were all over the premises. On the excuse that he had to fire the opening salvos of the United Auto Workers' contract battle in Detroit (see BUSINESS), A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, who has long been at odds with Meany, snubbed the entire meeting; labor experts were quick to note that Reuther had set the timetable for his contract negotiations long after...
...appeared announcing the formation of a new "Secret Army Organization" (O.A.S.), threatening a new uprising by bitter-enders. Still stashed away somewhere were about half of the 20,000 weapons, including everything up to bazookas and heavy machine guns, passed out by the army rebels to civilians during the four-day revolt. In Algiers, police dragnets searched 10,000 apartments a night, but hundreds of ultras were missing from their homes when the police arrived. The rest of the white settler population, confined by a 9 p.m. curfew, gathered on balconies and roofs, threw rocks and vegetables at police search...