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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Westinghouse and General Electric sponsor a television spectacular on union featherbedding in Newburgh, New York. "Unions have lost touch with morality," Ralph Cordiner, president of GE, explains, "and a free handout is not the American way of being poor. Only through corporation can America reach its purpose." ...President De Gaulle personally leads a march from Paris to the Spanish border protesting the resumption of plastic bomb tests...
...magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel or Arpège...
GENERAL ELECTRIC will resume making color TV sets this summer, having given up five years ago. GE says it is joining Zenith and other manufacturers who went into color recently because color TV is entering "the initial phase of mass-market acceptance." Until then, R.C.A. was sticking it out almost alone...
...consecutive victories would represent as impressive feat for any team. nding back more than two years to the much-publicised "hot-courts-partisantary" loss at Annapolis, the streak was for a few days as long as any in winter ge sports. But Ohio State's basketball team won its 23rd game, and the Crimson to Yale, so Baraoby will have to start from scratch next fall...
Predictably excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...