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...page package of recommendations for settling the three-week-old New York newspaper strike had been turned down by the Newspaper Guild and the New York Times last week merely as a matter of strategy. Had either side said yes, the other side would have surely said no-hopeful that by further bargaining it might gain something beyond Kheel's suggested compromises. Once they had recorded their unwillingness to give way any more, though, both the weary antagonists were quick to accede to Mayor Robert Wagner's suggestion that they change their minds, agree with Kheel...
...Thus, for all practical purposes, the strike ended. But a big question remained: Should it ever have begun? The issues it had settled could easily have been settled at the bargaining table; the looming problems of automation that were the major part of the argument remained largely unanswered. The Guild, which had demanded the same veto over automation machinery that had been won by the International Typographical Union last April, got a promise instead that it would not lose jurisdiction over jobs connected with any new machines. The I.T.U. veto, said Kheel, was "a confession of failure" by the publishers...
...Guild did not get automatic severance pay for retiring workers as it had asked; it did win the right of joint administration of a Times-Guild pension plan. As for union security, the Guild had demanded a union shop requiring every employee under Guild jurisdiction to become a dues-paying member. Just as adamantly, the Times had said no. Kheel's compromise gave the Guild a union shop in the commercial departments and left editorial personnel freedom of choice...
...whole package-which included 36 items already negotiated, plus the possibility of some new salary minimums and syndication rights for reporters-had few other consolations for the Guild, still fewer for the Times. "We don't like the settlement," said Times Vice President Ivan Veit, "but we'll learn to live with it." Kheel had made it clear that the paper's labor-relations department was in sad disarray; it would have to be revamped before it could deal intelligently with the difficulties ahead. Beyond all that, there was the more immediate problem of making up lost...
...reassuring permanence in the ever familiar opera repertory. Still others are attracted because in a mechanized, computerized world, opera offers escape into a realm of heroism-which is another way of saying individualism. Perhaps they come because, in the words of Langdon Van Norden, president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, "they are madmen! Madmen all!" But the dividing line between madness and love is unclear, and they come, above all, because they love the musical form of poetry, the amalgam of arts, that is opera. By joining words and music, sight and sound, opera enables the audience, as Music Master...