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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Industrial Union Department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. led a coalition bargaining drive against Union Carbide Corp., and Mr. Stephen Harris was involved in this effort. Eleven plants were struck for periods varying from 44 days to 246 days. Separate contracts were eventually negotiated on a local basis, each covering only the particular plant involved. The length of the individual contracts varied from twelve months to 38 months. On the basis of these facts, I trust you will agree that no company-wide contract was won from the Union Carbide Corp...
...clearly satisfied that the party leadership has refused to knuckle under. Ceausescu thus has accomplished in Rumania something like what Dubček earlier achieved in Czechoslovakia: the party has acquired its first genuinely widespread popularity. The Czechoslovak ambassador in Bucharest has a fat file containing the names of local families who have volunteered to take in stranded Czechs. A Rumanian writer who spent seven years in jail for organizing a demonstration in support of the rebel Hungarians in 1956 reported that scores of people are now joining the party-including many who were previously opposed...
Lifting Gloom. What happened? The explanation lies mainly in an unexpectedly sharp reduction in monthly draft calls (the September quota was 12,200, compared with 44,000 last May) and the sluggishness of the Selective Service bureaucracy. Local draft boards did not begin reclassifying deferred students until June. A month's delay is allowed for appeals. And, while physical exams usually take another month to process, all physicals were suspended in July and August on grounds of a paper work and funding squeeze. Some boards are also waiting until present deferments run out, most in September and October...
...just 24 miles from Los Angeles. "Santa Catalina," says Coast Guard Lieut. Edward McGuire. "You can see it, and the distance seems perfect for a weekend's outing. Everybody makes a try for it, and lots fail: out of gas." In Miami, power-boatmen quickly learned that the local Coast Guard was giving away gas to those whose tanks went dry. "Until some of our skippers got tough and charged a fee," recalls a Coast Guardsman, "we were running a floating gas station...