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...leadership posts in major unions are among the most powerful positions in the U.S., coveted by a host of aspirants. But there is no one way to win them, as the diametrically opposed situations in two giant unions illustrate. The 1.4 million-member United Steelworkers is enmeshed in a mudslinging, red-baiting election campaign, while the United Auto Workers, also 1.4 million strong, last week effectively chose a new chief in an atmosphere of total harmony. Details...
...remainder of the season on a tide of law-suits,? late hits and?in a play-off game against the New England Patriots?disputed calls by officials. They left in their wake, in addition to Swann's concussion, Patriots Tight End Russ Francis' broken nose and a host of battered, angry opponents. The Raiders' explanation: football is a game of aggression. Playing hard is not necessarily illegal...
...always feel the best way to do a story is to get involved," says Jim Hartz, traveling co-host of the Today show. Which is why he allowed A.L. Blanton, mayor of Plains, Ga., to do a Samson number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there...
...alphabet. There is not a single e in his highly praised novel, La Disparition-an omission that some critics failed to notice. "There were no problems of inspiration," recalls Perec. "After a while, the letters of the alphabet became the real characters of the novel." OuLiPoets have a host...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, will host a 13-part television series on economic history to be aired in April...