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...gave I.L.A. members a monopoly on packing and unpacking containers within 50 miles of dockside. In 1974, however, a U.S. court of appeals ruled that the agreement violated federal labor law. The Supreme Court last January refused to review the decision, and the I.L.A.'s crusty president, Teddy Gleason, 76, began warning of a strike when the union's contract expired unless some new job-protection scheme could be worked...
Reynolds is soon offering aid and comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
...Barnum once said you can't cheat an honest man, and in the same vein, you can't expose an honest politician. City Corporation Counsel Herbert W. Gleason '50 accused Garguilo of being politically motivated, and said she lacked an understanding of accepted business practices. With a staff of seven, the finance commission should be allowed a few errors because of sloppy work. And it has only erred on details, not substantive issues...
...well as the commission, but Garguilo has little choice. She lacks the staff to conduct long-term investigations and looks for methods that result in maximum publicity. The finance commission cannot order any official to follow its recommendations; it merely exposes questionable practices and lets public pressure follow up. Gleason weakly rationalized, "We're all understaffed...
...gulps with unseemly haste, since she harbors a yen for Wally, but insists that Wally's wife Monica (Joanna Gleason) share in the swap frolic. Christmas Eve dinner at Wally's house is the appointed double-bed date. But the catch is that Monica has not been told, and she raises demihell. Gleason, a fumingly sexy comedienne, hurls the dinner plates to the table like Frisbees and shot-puts the turkey. Then, like the perfect suburban hostess, she climbs into bed with the others, where monogamous love conquers...