Word: labor
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...freedom. A study of the Faculty records after President Conant's resignation, and through Pusey's appointment, shows that three junior Faculty members had their contracts terminated for refusing to testify before the HUAC about assorted Communist connections. (See Jared Israel's "Free Speech at Harvard" in the Progressive Labor Boston News, Fall, 1968, reprinted in the second issue of The Old Mole.) This policy was reaffirmed by Pusey before the SFAC last Spring--though his statement that a member of a communist party would be unfit to serve on the Faculty eluded the CRIMSON.Hutch Jenness...
...latest tax increase would have passed easily if Youngstown's powerful unions had supported it, but organized labor has long felt estranged from the city's schools. Until recently, the school board had no labor-oriented representatives. School officials failed to support a United Steelworkers plan to open a community college in Youngstown that would have provided more opportunities for high-level vocational instruction. The main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation...
...would hurt competition. In particular, the commission expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised to give valuable track rights to the Milwaukee and mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers gathered in Manhattan to sign the consolidation papers last May. But only hours before they were to complete the formalities that would have created the Burlington Northern, Chief...
With appropriately graphic, and occasionally very funny, antique engravings to illustrate the text, the author deftly deals with the genesis (and sometimes the subsequent exodus from the language) of more than 100 collective nouns (a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a labor of moles), most of which began in the 1400s in England as precise terms of venery. Happily, the collection has continued to grow during the intervening centuries: a shrivel of critics, an unction of undertakers (which, in larger groups, becomes an extreme unction of undertakers), and a swish of hairdressers. Etymology...
Where Morris L. West's bestseller merely strained credulity, the movie shatters it beyond repair. In Siberia, a political prisoner has been pardoned by Russia's Premier (Laurence Olivier) after 20 years in a slave-labor camp. The freed man is no ordinary convict: he is Kiril Lakota, a tough, Mindszenty-like Slavic archbishop. Lakota has been sprung because Russia and China stand ready to trigger an atomic holocaust. The premier, who just happens to be La-kota's former inquisitor, is desperately gambling that the prelate can somehow persuade the world that the Soviet Union wants...