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Last week U.S.W. President Lloyd McBride tried again, this time with an imaginative appeal not just for a wage freeze but for what would have amounted to an unprecedented pay and benefits cut of nearly 10% in the first year of a new multiyear contract. The deal would have required the U.S.W., in effect, to tear up its existing two-year-old contract, which does not formally expire until next August, and sign a new 45-month contract under which the steel companies would set up generous profit-sharing plans for U.S.W. members...
Once again, however, the U.S.W's local union chieftains said no. At week's end, after more than four hours of heated closed-door debate, they voted the plan down, 231 to 141. Said McBride afterward: "I am disappointed, obviously. I would have preferred a settlement. But the wisdom of the majority is what we go by. It was a judgment call...
Even in this season's less than robust crop, there are some potential export candidates. Among the one-acters, The New Girl, by Vaughn McBride is a very winning entry. The setting is a room in the Flossie Patch Nursing Home in Burley, Idaho. Clarissa (Anne Pitoniak) is bedridden, and Flo (Susan Kingsley) tools in on a health" to wheelchair get out the reporting first that time she and she'll "faked do it again. "I'm a lifer," responds Clarissa, but not despairingly. The two women are feisty graveyard jesters and the word terminal...
...Andersen) but about City Ballet. If there were surprises, there were traditional elements: Balanchine working with Farrell, his principal muse of the past two decades, and Karin von Aroldingen, the ballerina who is perhaps closest to him personally; Robbins pushing the younger dancers but not forgetting Patricia McBride, his Girl in Pink in Dances at a Gathering (1969). But the story of N.Y.C.B. was best told in the frequent use of apprentices and students from the company-related School of American Ballet. Both John Taras, one of the ballet masters, and Peter Martins, the company's top male dancer...
...Carew. Pete Rose. Johnny Bench. Fred Lynn. 5. Cincinnatti's Ray Knight. 6. Lee Lacy. 7. Sandy Koufax. Denny McClain. Jim Palmer. 8. Bobby Bonds. 189 in 1970 9. Catfish Hunter: Minnesota. 4-0 10. Walter Johnson. Gaylord Perry. Bob Gibson. Nolan Ryan. 11. Phillies. Pete Rose. Bake McBride. Gary Matthews: Braves: Bob Horner. Chris Chambliss. John "the Count" Montefusco. 12. Vida Blue. 1971. 13. the St. Louis Cardinals. 4-0 14. Willie Stargell broke Mickey Mantle's record of 1711 in 1978. 15. In 1967. Jim Lonborg of the Red Sox struck out 246 batters to win the crown...