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...test driver for South Bend's Studebaker Corp., Elmer Kovach spent his working days putting Studebakers through their paces. But in his off hours, Kovach preferred to drive a 1953 Oldsmobile. This preference soon got Kovach in trouble with fellow members of the United Auto Workers' (C.I.O.) Local 5 in the plant. One day last summer, two union stewards dropped by with a little advice. It might be a good idea, they said, to trade his Olds in on a Studebaker; the union had decided workers should drive nothing but Studebakers, since it was a matter of jobs...
Four of the 15 soon were driving Studebakers-and were back at work. But Kovach appealed his dismissal to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that under the Taft-Hartley Act it was unfair for the company to fire him to enforce any union rule unrelated to the payment of union dues. Said he: "I work my 40 hours, earn my pay. What I do with my money is my own business." Last week the NLRB agreed with Kovach, cited both union and Studebaker for an unfair labor practice...
...pair of young Iron Curtain refugees turned up in London's Festival Hall last week and put on a rare show: a firsthand demonstration of contemporary Russian ballet style. They were Hungary's Istvan Rabovsky, 23, and his wife, Nora Kovach, 21, since 1949 leading dancers in the Leningrad, Moscow and Budapest Opera ballets. They danced the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote-a circusy old number that gave little chance for high art but plenty for high jumps-with a kind of brilliant virtuosity that left balletomanes' toes twitching. Istvan won top honors with...
...Chemistry 1: first prizes to Ned Feder and Eugene G. Kovach. Second prizes to Andrew G. Kridl and Paul H. Pitkanen...