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Against this grey background, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther vowed in a speech at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate...
...whole trend of applications suggests that they are going to run substantially above last year," Jordan said. "This, in turn, will mean that the Admissions Committee will have a substantially harder job," he continued...
...going to be cross-ruffed into matching Russia in a bid for Nasser's favor. But many U.S. observers concede that Nasser seems securely in power, and likely to be in power for a long time to come. To do nothing might mean to let Egypt go to Russia by default. The U.S. has always made it clear that it will release the frozen funds only when and if Nasser gives some clear and substantive evidence of good faith. The emphasis was on substantive-promises would not be enough...
Explained Colareta: "The rape of minors is nothing so unusual here or anywhere else. But of course rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...
...kind of philosophic mystery story-by the author of R.U.R.-first produced in the '20s. It is the kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have enjoyed remodeling. The Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines of a joke. Since the chief character...