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Last April's steel crisis brought screams from businessmen that the U.S. Government under President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg is meddling too much in labor-management matters. But there is another side to that coin. And last week A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany sat down at a lunch with Washington newsmen and criticized the Administration in terms remarkably similar to those voiced by many corporation presidents...
Across the desk of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last week came a memo stamped OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE. "Due to the graveness of the situation at Hodag," it said, "and the effect this jurisdictional strike may have on the McClellan Committee and public opinion, I thought that you should be advised before we take action." It was signed by Assistant Air Force Secretary Joseph Imirie. Always a man to get going on things, Goldberg ordered a subordinate to get cracking on the Hodag dispute. Top aides were soon in a tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified...
When not table-hopping among negotiators, Goldberg attended to such routine duties of office as a weekly staff meeting, a Cabinet meeting, a State Department dinner for the President of Ecuador, a string of office appointments. Through it all, he seldom looked tired. Whenever the pace began to wear, a quick pull at the department's rowing machine and a shower restored...
Intervention or Service? For Goldberg and his aides, such weeks are fast becoming routine. While such dedication is commendable, many businessmen question whether it is really necessary or desirable. Nowadays a labor dispute hardly seems to have any status at all unless Goldberg or his department is involved. This tends to down-rate all the ordinary processes of bargaining. But Goldberg's participation is frequently not entirely his doing: he gets so many "please help us" appeals from both management and labor that he rejects far more pleas than he accepts, insists that he enters only those situations that...
...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...