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IMMEDIATELY after President Nixon froze wages and I prices last August, 135 union lawyers met in Washington to decide whether organized labor should unite in urging federal courts to declare the freeze unconstitutional. Most felt that that would be useless, but at least six unions later decided to sue on their own. Although the freeze has ended, the court arguments have not. Last week the Amalgamated Meat Cutters asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the freeze was indeed constitutional and that the butchers therefore could not collect retroactively a raise...
Detroit is gratefully naming Richard Nixon the New Car Salesman of the Year. Auto sales were strong even before he froze prices; now they are going through the roof. It is much too early to tell how well the four-week-old 1972 model year will turn out, but it is clearly off to a fast start. "It is our best introductory period in history," says Robert D. Lund, Chevrolet's general sales manager. Adds Ben Bidwell, Lincoln-Mercury general manager: "Our dealers have never seen anything like today's boom...
...director of the Office of Management and Budget; he worked for Shultz as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower. Weber had already packed his family off and was preparing to return to his University of Chicago teaching post when he was tapped for the council job. "We froze my leave of absence," Weber says...
Such realignments have been set in motion by some major developments. One of them is the fact that the fear of China that froze most Asian capitals in the 1960s is rapidly melting away. The failures of Chinese-supported insurgencies in Indonesia and Malaysia have considerably deflated China's reputation as an international troublemaker. Moreover, since the end of the Cultural Revolution with all its attendant hysteria and xenophobia, China has steadily moved toward what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik approvingly calls "sensible moderation...
Letter of Intent. Mills was understandably pleased with himself, but his smile soon froze. Nixon has been exasperated by Democrat Mills' opposition to the Administration plan for sharing federal revenues with the states; he also resents Mills' undertaking personal diplomacy in the Japanese textile matter, though both Secretary of State William Rogers and National Security Assistant Henry Kissinger favored Mills' unorthodox solution. No good, said Nixon, who reportedly feels that the restrictions obtained by Mills do not protect U.S. textile interests sufficiently. Now Nixon's men think they have found a way around Mills...