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...Lib Arbitration. It was by any definition an inflationary boost. Johnson's woodshed rationale was that its effect would somehow be neutralized by the airlines' hefty 1966 profits, which he preferred to call "productivity." The President explained on TV: "Unit labor costs in the air-transportation industry will continue to decline, thus assuring that this settlement will not contribute to any increase in the prices the public pays." This gloss did not cover the fact that the major airlines have won federal approval for six rate increases over the past decade, and in each case a major factor...
...federal laws to "deal with strikes which threaten irreparable damage to the national interest." No such legislation has yet been proposed, and until it is, the Government can do little but muddle through crippling work stoppages in the transportation industry. The Administration's next exercise in ad-lib arbitration will most likely come when the militant railroad brotherhoods hold long-postponed negotiations with companies that control nearly all of the U.S.'s railroads...
...where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed to ad-lib hello...
...potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias in Soho - and a place on King's Road where she could buy a pair of bell-bottom slacks by Foale & Tuffin that made her something of a trend setter back home in New York...
...Parisien Libéré, Rudolf Nureyev, 27, was "forever the prodigious dancer who left us breathless in 1961." That was the year when the temperamental Tartar also left two Soviet "bodyguards" breathless at Le Bourget Airport as he leaped away from the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet troupe to become the most spectacular male dancer in the West. After performing in Paris with Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Third International Dance Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev...