Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians...
...more massive demonstrations against the war. However, if they merely replay the romantic and potentially tragic script of the march on the Pentagon, they will impair not only the cause they hope to represent, but the cherished American tradition of dissent as well. "The whole thing ended so meanly," Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said almost sadly before the Yale Political Union. "There must be a great many people who feel they were discredited by a few who distorted dissent into obscenity...
Fever Swamps. Buckley can be effectively pithy. When the British Labor government decided to equip police with breathometers to check drivers for drunkenness, he commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed...
...Triumph. Believing in the innocence of Edgar Smith, a convicted rapist now in the death house in Trenton, Buckley has done his level best to win him a retrial. In recent columns, he has come out in favor of L.BJ.'s rent-supplement program, compulsory arbitration of major labor disputes, and "massive" aid to the ghettos-scarcely traditional conservative causes...
Detroit's No. 1 salesman last week was United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther. Having left the Ford Motor Co. bargaining table with the richest labor settlement in industry history, he now had to sell the terms to the boys. The 35-month contract was worth "seven hundred to eight hundreds of millions of dollars," in wages and benefits, he said on an hour-long TV pitch. "I tell you that we have squeezed and squeezed and squeezed...