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...January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage board with power to lower wage increases and to impose settlements if necessary. If labor did not agree, Hodgson warned, the President might establish such...
Dean Dunlop, a leading labor economist and chairman of President Nixon's Committee on Construction, met with labor officials in Bel Harbour, Fla., Monday to outline a temporary freeze on wages, prices, and profits being considered by the Administration for the construction industry...
...islands are inhabited by sunburned, towheaded Tories, whose ancestors left New England in 1775. They and their former slaves live together on Harbour Island. On Spanish Wells the blacks are deported at 5 p.m. Five family names embrace the whites of these islands. The inbreeding is so ancient that they all look alike; thin, spindly, with glassy, blue eyes, crooked jaws, bony wrists and thick knuckles. The blacks are inbred to a lesser extent as they come and go more with the outer islands. Nevertheless, two out of four blacks share the same surname...
Whether or not marital infidelity is actually increasing in the U.S., adultery has become almost a lighthearted and guilt-free pastime. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Dr. Leon Salzman of Georgetown University Medical School noted that, contrary to popular thinking, a large number of adulterers are neither anxious nor conscience-stricken. With ridiculous ease, these philanderers convince themselves that an affair is either necessary to maintain their own mental health or a device for allowing them to tolerate a barely compatible husband or wife while still remaining married...
Expansion of Fact. Nearly everybody aboard who could write seems to have kept some sort of journal, scribbling away in the meridional heat like diary-addicted schoolgirls. Patiently, Blunden has stitched and embroidered it all together-Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled because the aborigines greeted them by shouting "Charco!"), the escape and return of a seaman named Saunders who lived with the natives for a while and discovered gold. The voyage also seems to have occasioned European man's first sight of the kangaroo (it was taken...