Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proudly, officers of United Auto Workers Local 2055 announced two weeks ago the completion of negotiation of a first contract for 1,800 members at Volkswagen's six-month-old plant in New Stanton, Pa. The pact called for a minimum wage next year of $7.48 an hour for unskilled workers, rising to $9.62 in 1981, and $9.48 for skilled diemakers, rising in three years to $11.62 - plus fringes. But the workers were not buying. Last week they rejected the contract 1,235 to 94 and stomped out on strike...
...Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled the great man's songs in local bars. Interpreters translated learned musical discourse in three languages (Czech, German and Russian). "If the old man ever scribbled graffiti on walls, we will probably hear that too," said one visitor...
...three minor operas and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, a light, satirical tale about a flight to the moon and the Hussite wars of the 15th century. He also wrote one powerful but somber verismo work: Jenufa, the story of a village girl made pregnant by the local womanizer, whose formidable foster mother kills her baby...
...musical genius did not really bloom until he was 63. Then he fell madly in love with Kamilla Stoesslova, the pretty young wife of an antique dealer. Although the composer always contended that their love was platonic, hundreds of steamy letters, discreetly tucked away in the local Janáček Museum, seem to belie his claim. The affair inspired a unique musical outburst. By the time he died at age 74 (some say while pursuing a woman through a nearby woods), Janáček had written four blazingly original operas, orchestral pieces and chamber music and the immense...
Performed under local or general anesthesia, the facelift is a delicate operation lasting three to four hours. The surgeon begins by making an uninterrupted incision that starts at the temple, runs down the front of the ear, under the earlobe and behind the ear. Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place...