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...equalizer." Wright has sprayed dozens of diners-and their meals-in restaurants. Miraculously, he has not yet been punched out. A classic soft response to such antismoking harassment is blowing smoke in the challenger's face. But that tactic is legally dangerous, at least in Australia. Brian McBride, head of a nonsmoking group there, brought charges against a bus driver who did just that to him. The driver was convicted of assault and had to pay $328 in court costs...
...second score for the Crimson was engineered by Pat Daly. Faced with third and long at midfield. Daly found John Coffer for the first down to keep the drive going. On the following third down Daly went to the air again and found Tim McBride on the four, setting up a touch-down run for Charles Sandor...
...policies: Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Sol Chaikin, president of the Ladies Garment Workers; Glenn Watts, chief of the Communications Workers, and Jerry Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Two more possible recruits for a liberal coalition are Lloyd McBride, new president of the United Steelworkers, and Douglas Fraser, who is expected to lead the United Auto Workers back into...
...campaign was one of the most vituperative ever seen in a union election, and it continued that way to the end. On the weekend before the polling, retiring President I.W. Abel, who had hand-picked McBride as his heir, flew to Chicago to attack Sadlowski on his home turf. "I've known Ed Sadlowski for twelve years," sneered the white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well...
When all the shouting was over, though, it became apparent that McBride, not Sadlowski, had read the union members' mood correctly. Sadlowski had become something of a liberals' darling by portraying himself as a lance bearer for the downtrodden, a champion of militant bargaining with the industry who would also work for social change through unionism. But basic Steelworkers average about $8 an hour, hardly a depressed wage; many live in the suburbs, and few are disposed to left-leaning politics. Surprisingly for a third-generation "mill rat," Sadlowski turned many workers off by referring repeatedly...