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...CHOOSING Stevenson makes some sense. Whether in this strange election Carter will pay attention to what makes sense is a different question. What Jimmy must pay heed to, however, is clout--and that's a word Richard J. Daley put in the American vocabulary. If Daley so desires, he can bring a tremendous amount of pressure to bear on Carter to pick Stevenson. "Hizzoner da mare," as he is known to his Chicago friends, possesses hundreds of I.O.U.'s just waiting to be collected on. For years, Democratic politicians from across the country have come hat in hand to Daley...
...majority of its employees. And even some famous universities could take a lesson from McDonald's union-busting methods. Claiming no "outsider" (read: union) is needed to resolve labor-management conflicts, managers hold "rap sessions" with employees, ostensibly to understand their grievances. Actually, Hamburger Central directs managers to heed complaints only as a clue to which employees have unionizing sympathies. Tricky lie detector tests await the bad burgers...
...create new international monetary reserves to finance development in Third World countries. Other recommendations are to reduce tariffs on industrial products sold by developing nations, to set up new international agencies to subsidize the conservation of resources and, perhaps most startling, new controls on multinational companies so that they heed the needs of the countries in which they do business, as well as their own welfare...
David C. Price '77, a task force member and theater participant, said yesterday if Harvard fails to heed task force allegations of "violations of affirmative action policy in hiring and promotion practices, the task force will sue the University...
...troublemaker for Washington, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Last week during an appearance in Dallas, the Secretary used his firmest language yet, warning that the U.S. "will not accept further Cuban military intervention" in Africa and hinting darkly of "decisive action" if Havana refused to pay heed...