Word: harbour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. bigwigs gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla., for their annual executive-council meeting last week, they were in a grim mood. They were mostly unhappy over Congress' second refusal to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to enact right-to-work laws. Pete McGavin, executive secretary of the federation's maritime-trades department, spoke for many of his colleagues when he observed: "If President Johnson had put as much emphasis on 14(b) as he did on his wife's beautification program, the measure would have gone through...
Bounced a Bit. When Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz went to Bal Harbour to argue the "good sense" and "good results" of the guidelines, the labor barons were hostile. "We bounced him around a bit," one official said of the private meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some...
...Beach's top architect, Morris Lapidus, from whose drawing board have sprung such pacesetting superhotels as the $40 million Fontainebleau, the $20 million Americana (in nearby Bal Harbour) and the $12 million Eden Roc, has the same idea. He explains: "I'm not designing hotels. I'm designing stage settings on which people will play out their two-week vacations...
...C.I.O. President George Meany, 70, is backed up by 28 other executive council members, whose average age is 63½ - making them many years the senior of the U.S. Cabinet (average age: 51) and the great majority of U.S. corporation chiefs. Last week, when the council gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla. for its midwinter meeting, younger labor chiefs finally pressed Meany to retire the oldsters gracefully. Despite official denials, at least five of the older council members -all of whom no longer even head the unions they represent-are likely to be eased off the council by year...
...around it-is on an oilfield owned by the Christiana Oil Corp. So valuable has the surface of the aging field become that Christiana has closed and cemented over its producing wells. It has converted the tidal slough on which they stood into a posh residential marina called Huntington Harbour, which sits on the Pacific Ocean south of Los Angeles. Like more and more U.S. companies, it has discovered that land can pay a prettier profit than almost any other investment...