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Then U.S. Mediation Director Wayne Horvitz came to the rescue with a formula acceptable to both sides. Talks would resume for 15 days under a new mediator, James J. Healy, professor of industrial relations at the Harvard Business School. But this concession to the unions would be balanced by one for the Postal Service: if agreement was not reached within that time, Healy could impose an arbitrated settlement. Explained Horvitz with studied ambiguity: "It will be a form of a negotiated-mediated settlement...
...plan gave everyone a badly needed respite until the new deadline Sept. 16. "Horvitz did a fantastic job," exulted a White House aide. Happiest of all were the two postal union leaders who had strict instructions from their members to call a strike-even though postal strikes are illegal-if the Postal Service did not resume talks. Said J. Joseph Vacca, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: "I can breathe again for the first time in a week...
Much depends on the skill of Mediator Healy, 62, who has been settling labor disputes, especially in the railroad and maritime industries, since 1945. "He is one of the two or three best in the country for this kind of work," says Horvitz. Under the unusual bargaining agreement, Healy has considerable room for maneuver. Both sides will have to be wary of rejecting proposals for fear that the final binding arbitration might be worse...
First in the race, and seven place points eluded the Crimson when captain Paul Horvitz, swimming the freestyle leg, missed a turn after it appeared that a Crimson first was wrapped up. Harvard's first-day total of 48 points virtually equalled last year's three-day total...
...final event of the afternoon, the Harvard freestyle relay team of Fred Mitchell, Paul Horvitz, Tim Neville and Steve Baird swam its best time of the season--a fast 3:13.7. But once again Yale was just too much for the Crimson and won the race easily...