Word: labor
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...opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like to be the first President to appoint a woman or a Negro to the court, thus...
...British Prime Minister was not speaking to Ho Chi Minh, Charles de Gaulle or Ted Heath but to members of his own party. They were 60 or so dissident, left-wing Labor M.P.s who for months have been snapping at Wilson's policies. The rebels have outspokenly opposed his stands on Viet Nam (too hard), Rhodesia (too soft), the wage freeze (too tough on the working class), defense (too expensive), and possible entry into the Common Market (too great a surrender of sovereignty). If the rebels do not swing back in line, warned Wilson, he might just call...
African slave labor once scraped fortunes for British planters from the soil of these lush islands, but today they are rich only in scenery, have precarious, one-crop economies, which have been hurt by increased competition abroad. The St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla group (pop.: 60,000) suffers from uncertain prices for its sugar. The fortunes of St. Lucia (100,000), Grenada (88,000) and Dominica (67,000) slide or surge along with the world price for their bananas. Only Antigua (65,000), with its casino and 33 hotels, attracts a sizable tourist crowd; it needs visitors more than usual this...
...thinks the anti-war movement will follow its program. Frankly, we doubt it. Progressive Labor Jared Israel, Harvard Ellen Klein, Radcliffe Emily Perkins, Boston U. Bob Schwartz, Boston U. Debby Levensohn, Boston...
...union affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and the N.E.A., a self-styled professional organization whose 987,000 members include administrators as well as teachers. Tracing its origin back to the creation of the Chicago Teachers Federation in 1897, the A.F.T. was for most of its history one of organized labor's less effective branches. Teachers generally felt superior to a blue-collar approach, and the union itself was rocked during the '30s by Communist infiltration, which was eventually eradicated. Under the 1952-1964 presidency of Carl J. Megel, membership grew from 39,000 to 100,000. The union...