Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Front; earlier, Hanoi had demanded that the speaking order be determined by drawing lots. The 80-minute meeting between Vance and Lau, held in secrecy in a Paris suburb, was followed by a shorter one the next day. Then the agreement was announced-matter-of-factly, with a minimum of polemics and with neither side claiming a diplomatic victory. Said U.S. Chief Negotiator Averell Harriman, who will yield his post to Henry Cabot Lodge this week: "We did not give in, and we did not expect them to give in. Meanwhile, we can go ahead and do business...
Orgy of Laughter. The myths usually begin with Halprin urging her visitors-who range from college professors to neighborhood hippies-to make themselves completely comfortable by shedding whatever garments they care to (most stop at shoes and socks). The weekly sessions take place in a barren room with a minimum of props; the usual musical accompaniment is the pounding of drums. After a few basic instructions from Halprin on the nature, of the evening's theme, the enactment of the myth begins. And except for some quiet and inconspicuous guidance from her workshop dancers, the non-professional participants...
...issue were only money, the strike could probably be settled quickly. The Guild is demanding a minimum salary of $264 a week for experienced newsmen; AP offered $14 less, or $250. A more basic difference is the Guild's insistence that eight out of ten new AP employees must join the union. AP General Manager Wes Gallagher has called the demand "non-negotiable." If the AP "is to maintain its standards of objectivity," he said, "it cannot force its news employees into any organization, including a union...
Costlier for Consumers. The rising cost of credit is beginning to affect consumers as well as businessmen. In California, the giant Bank of America and several savings and loan associations lifted their minimum interest rate on home mortgages from 7¼% to 7½%. At week's end Manhattan's First National City Bank increased by one-fourth of 1% its charges for auto, consumer and home-improvement loans. The true annual interest rates on some personal loans rose to more than...
...major dailies in the nation's third most populous city. Of the original 2,000 strikers, 1,600 work at odd jobs only two days a week and therefore qualify for strike benefits, which have cost the unions $10,000 a week (pressmen get a minimum of $25 a week, printers and mailers $103). The other 400 have taken full-time jobs, many at smaller newspapers, where pay is often lower than at the Herald-Examiner. Affected families display signs in their home windows: HEARST HURTS THIS HOUSEHOLD...