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...what they call "time-paid-not-worked" that would add millions of dollars to labor costs. In the last negotiations three years ago, both sides reached agreement on economic issues (the U.A.W. got a package amounting to 17? an hour), but disputes over working conditions provoked strikes by maverick locals that paralyzed both Ford and G.M. for about two weeks. "The chances of trouble this year are greater than they have been at any time since 1946," says one top negotiator. "Somebody's got to come down off the mountain...
...Pierre shelled out $4,000,000 of his fortune to replace more than 100 rundown public schools in the state. Today, hardly any Du Pont activity surprises anybody, including other Du Ponts. One (Ethel) even married a Roosevelt (Franklin D. Jr.); they got divorced in 1949. Current Du Pont maverick is Mrs. Colgate W. Darden Jr., great-great-granddaughter of the founder. Mrs. Darden is a leader in the fight against indiscriminate use of pesticide chemicals. Her husband, onetime Governor of Virginia, is a board director of a Du Pont company that manufactures pesticides...
Early Sunday, after six weary hours of discussion with the family and its maverick princess, Prime Minister Marijnen and three senior ministers decided sadly that the time had not yet come when the Dutch could contemplate a Catholic monarch and a Spanish consort. Rather than renounce her love, Irene renounced the right of succession and agreed to live in exile. So died a princess...
...partnership is a natural. Ever since he joined his Martin Co. with American-Marietta three years ago, Chairman George Maverick Bunker, 56, has been selling off his least profitable operations and building a nest egg that now amounts to $150 million. On the other hand, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge has the biggest industrial process-control operation in the U.S., supplies devices to such firms as U.S. Steel (to control oxygen furnaces) and Riverside Cement (to regulate cement blending). But TRW did not have capital enough to develop the business and make it profitable. With Martin putting up the cash and owning...
Saddled with dialogue that often seems as flat as a list of over-the-counter quotations, Actress Remick and Leading Man James Garner almost save the day. Garner, who used to be TV's Maverick, has an easy comedy style that departs from the current vogue for hard-breathers. His approach to sex is sidelong-frank, half-innocent curiosity mixed with a twinkling suspicion that the whole durn thing might be some kind of a trick. To help Garner feel at home off the range, Remick comes on as a clotheshorse. Though her head is supposedly full of Universal...