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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Coop this year will offer a 7.5 per cent rebate to all members of the cooperative, the largest in the history of the store...
...largest walkout came in Chicago, the nation's third largest school system, where 27,000 teachers shut down all of the city's 666 public schools preventing 530,000 pupils from attending classes. In Pennsylvania, strikes closed 25 of the state's 505 school districts, and teachers walked picket lines in one-third of Rhode Island's school districts. Schools were shut down in Berkeley, Calif., Wilmington, Del., and dozens of other cities. In hundreds of districts, teachers began the school year at work without contracts, awaiting the outcome of bargaining sessions that seemed hopelessly deadlocked...
...between labor and management has many battlefields. One of them is a 70-acre tract of plants in the industrial Midlands town of Darlaston, eight miles north of begrimed Birmingham. The headquarters of Britain's largest privately held company, Rubery Owen Holdings, Ltd., the Darlaston plants are among the country's largest suppliers of components to the British automobile industry: frames for Jaguar, axles for Rover, gasoline tanks for Rolls-Royce. The plants are also the foundation of a family empire established by A.E. Owen in 1893 that now includes some 20 companies in seven countries. The Darlaston...
...Owen, 35, managing director, son and grandson of the Owens who have run the plant for 80 years? Or is it Doug Peach, 57, the son and grandson of bricklayers, for 33 years one of the company's 3,000 employees, now a full-time "convenor" for the largest union at Rubery Owen, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)?* Whether such men can find some bond of common self-interest will determine the fate of Britain's economy and Wilson's Labor government−and quite possibly more. To help assess the conflict, TIME London Correspondent...
...implied, of Allah. No religion was more appropriately named. At the height of its conquests in the 8th century A.D., the empire of Islam stretched from the Atlantic beaches of Portugal to the western fringe of China. It encompassed half the known world. This Moslem superstate was the largest religious and political bloc mankind had seen since the Augustan empire, and it had all been consolidated in a little more than 100 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed...