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...appearance at the AFL-CIO meeting and the new flexibility in wages were only the two freshest roses tossed by the White House lately in labor's path. Meany was respectfully consulted on both Dunlop's appointment and that of Peter Brennan, a New York City hardhat leader who became the first union man to head the Labor Department in almost 20 years. The President also took the extraordinary step of inviting Meany to submit his personal nominees for several top-ranking jobs in the Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Defense departments. Finally, Nixon promised...
...however, the National Association of Home Builders fears that starts will fall 20%, to around 1.9 million, the lowest since the recession year of 1970. That would be about twice as sharp a drop as first anticipated, and enough to put a painful crimp in builders' profits and hardhat payrolls...
...Social fantasy about a gun-toting hardhat who entertains pathological urges to kill hippies, liberals, social workers, et al. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
...only a month old, LaVelle's introduction to the trade began two years ago when Author Studs Terkel recruited him for neighborhood-tavern discussions that Terkel was filming for the National Education Television network. Once he was assured that Terkel did not want to portray him as a "hardhat brute," LaVelle agreed to take part. LaVelle's TV appearances led to a correspondence with the Village Voice and the publication of one of LaVelle's critical letters in the paper; a Tribune editor asked him to submit his written view of the McGovern candidacy. "I tried...
...next day gets ten per cent in the Massachusetts primary, twenty-one per cent in Pennsylvania on the basis of only a couple of hours campaigning in each place. I see the South taken for granted as Wallace moves into the South of the North--wooing the hardhat, the migrated hill-billy, the ethnic angry at busing. Under Webster's picture at Fanueil Hall, Wallace takes aim at his favorite targets: the apparently bottomless pit of taxing and spending, taxing and spending; the phony slickness of television, "kowtowing to the exotic and the noisemakers;" the liberals who have gotten...