Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused growers of acting "like pampered chil dren sitting back with a steady barrage of crybaby pleas that their crops are about to rot. If they would demonstrate only a fraction as much interest in their workers as they do in their crops, the labor problem would evaporate...
...debate continued, all parties launched into a few hurried, stopgap solutions aimed at saving the crops from disaster. Secretary Wirtz approved the employment of about 3,500 braceros (at $1.40 an hour). And, in a cooperative venture of the Labor Department, state government, farmers and schools, more than 700 high school boys have been recruited to help on the farms this summer. But none of this provides a real answer to the picking problem...
...E.F.T.A. meeting reflected a new British initiative to ward bridging the widening rift, a new effort to turn the nation's face once again toward the Continent. It was particularly surprising because Harold Wilson's Labor Party has always looked on Europe with a suspicious eye. When Britain applied for Common Market membership in 1961, it was under the leadership of Harold Macmillan's Conservatives; Labor's Hugh Gaitskell, in a slashing speech at Brighton only three months before his death, in effect committed the socialists to stay out of Europe...
...coalition government. Imbert was ready with his own version. After huddling with representatives of six parties, ranging from the far-right Vanguardia to the middle-of-the-road Christian Democrats, he announced a "broad-based provisional legislative assembly" composed of appointees from each party as well as delegates from labor, business, the professions, and farmers. Declared Imbert: "This solution should be preferred over formulas brought in by airplane...
Worth the Labor. That the Czechs heard Celibidache at all was no small achievement. A man of passionate convictions who "would rather starve" than give an imperfect performance, Celibidache has become an artist in self-imposed exile. While other guest conductors accept three rehearsals as sufficient preparation for a concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor...