Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ship docks on Shanghai's Whang-poo River. Busy first day sightseeing. Second day, to Peking for manic 14-hour slog that takes in Great Wall, Forbidden City, sumptuous banquet. Third, more Shanghai. Shopping, sights and concert. Fourth, to Wusih and on to Soochow for the night and another crammed rubbernecking day. Sixth, Shanghai. Seventh, sail for Canton. Eighth, ninth and tenth days at sea: slide shows, lectures, no chopsticks. Eleventh, arrive Canton. Temples, museums, other sights. Twelfth, by plane to beautiful Kweilin, two days. Fourteenth, back to Canton: another temple, shopping, concert. Fifteenth day, to Foshan for temples...
...people behind Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? were really smart, they would have handed the whole film over to Morley. Unfortunately, they use the actor as an appetizer rather than the main course. About half an hour after the picture begins, Morley surrenders center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...
...hour is not enough...
Proudly, officers of United Auto Workers Local 2055 announced two weeks ago the completion of negotiation of a first contract for 1,800 members at Volkswagen's six-month-old plant in New Stanton, Pa. The pact called for a minimum wage next year of $7.48 an hour for unskilled workers, rising to $9.62 in 1981, and $9.48 for skilled diemakers, rising in three years to $11.62 - plus fringes. But the workers were not buying. Last week they rejected the contract 1,235 to 94 and stomped out on strike...
Until now, VW's Pennsylvania wage has averaged more than a dollar less than what Detroit's Big Three pay, and VW workers insist on catching up. In sum, the VW workers want at least $10 an hour by 1981. The walkout is the latest sign that labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says...