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Bold Idea. Does that mean the Steelworkers intend to import to the U.S. the Japanese idea of guaranteed employment with the same company from apprenticeship to grave? No one can say: the union has yet to figure out how to put its bold idea into practice. Steelworkers Special Counsel Elliot Bredhoff concedes that the whole concept "is rather nebulous. We'll be exploring all ideas." About the only thing that is certain is the demand will not lead to a strike when contracts covering 337,600 workers at the Big Ten steel companies expire July 31. The talks will...
With his cavalry riding crop, peppery General of Division José Hernández Toledo, 55, taps at a map of the near-unpenetrable 35,000-sq.-mi. area that his troops intend to cover during the next four months. He outlines their objective in bluntest terms: "I will stay here until I have completed the mission my President gave me-rid the mountains of this curse." Adds an aide: "You had better advise New York that Mexican Brown is going to be in short supply from...
...have always said we are ready for a dialogue and we have indicated that we are willing to discuss any topic-with the exclusion of anything that might remotely suggest that we intend to tolerate or accept the conditions that contributed to the 1970 disaster here in Jordan. What happened between 1967 and 1970 is something no one here can tolerate in any form or permit to come back. It is not a question of Jordanians v. Palestinians, but a question of chaos and anarchy against law-and-order. We are not prepared to go through that experience again...
...businessmen who have already read it, one finds it an interesting contribution to management lore, another calls it "outrageous." A third cautions that junior executives cannot learn to become gamesmen by reading the book: the skills and attitudes are instinctive, "not like learning geometry." But Maccoby did not intend his work as instruction, only as description. In that capacity, it should fuel cocktail-party and water-cooler discussion for months, as workers try to classify their bosses-and themselves-according to Maccoby's types...
...Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein asking why his is "the only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen coverage of fashion, business, television and sports?especially horse racing. He intends to weed out the paper's overgrown garden of columnists, perhaps adding another conservative. "We're aiming for a fairly sophisticated afternoon paper," he says. "It's very middle class now, and we don't intend to change that...