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Union Organizer Milford Allen stood for hours under a broiling sun one day early this month, handing "You Need a Union Card" leaflets to workers at the Barnesville, Ga., knitting mill of the William Carter Co., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of children's clothing. "This union stuff is shit," snarled one worker as he threw his leaflet away. Said another: "I'd like it, but I can't take it. They'd lay me off." That night, at an organizing meeting that drew all of 24 union sympathizers (20 of them black), Allen in effect agreed...
...fastest-rising star in the Swedish corporate world. During the past decade, Wall, through a shrewdly calculated program of acquisitions, has built his company from a small trading firm into a conglomerate embracing 50 trading and manufacturing concerns that turn out goods as diverse as beer, rolling-mill equipment and industrial pumps. Under Wall, Beijerinvest's sales went from $25 million in 1964 to $1.04 billion last year. Last week the company reported that volume for the first half of this year hit $659 million, or 59% more than a year earlier, and profits came to $21 million...
...SITCOM has two new entries from Norman Lear and one from Mary Tyler Moore's mill. As might be expected, the most sophisticated, All's Fair, is a Lear production for CBS. The story about a conservative Washington columnist in his late 40s, played by Richard Crenna, and his affair with a young, radical chic photographer, gives saucer-eyed Bernadette Peters a long-overdue opportunity to close in on an identifiable personality. But All's Fair is not for all viewers. In the damning words of one West Coast handicapper: "It's a thinking...
...split-screen debate as well as the final one, constructed two identical, fully furnished cottages in its largest New York studio so both men could prepare in comfort. The background cloth for the split sets in New York and Los Angeles was bought by ABC from the same mill. After the set was painted in New York, cans of the same paint were taken by Production Service Director Fred Schuhmann in an airplane to Los Angeles, to be used there...
Jeff Berner Mill Valley, Calif...