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...according to Susan Mizner, a temporary clerical worker who graduated from Yale last December. Local 35 is not likely to strike because it would be a big loss for them...
Students seem mixed on the issue. According to Mizner, there is a general "suspicion that Yale in trying to stall the negotiations in order to hunt the union, "but at the same time, there is also a suspicion that, "what they are hearing is only the union's side of the issue, because the university is not talking...
...Mizner said that "management is prepared very well, and have already begun looking for places they can cut back," she added that, "six hundred clerical and technical workers have signed a letter to President Gramatti saying that they would continue to work in the event of a strike...
...such an unliveable situation, writes Tom Dardis in Some Time in the Sun, his account of the Hollywood screenwriting years of five American writers, the job that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered Fitzgerald was a godsend. Unfortunately, Dardis, who is anxious to refute Fitzgerald critic Arthur Mizner and others who have portrayed the writer demoralized and deteriorating under the California sun, attempts to equate Fitzgerald's happiness with the $1,250 paychecks he received in 1938 from MGM. Dardis gives a blow-by-blow account of how Fitzgerald secured his contracts, but almost completely omits Fitzgerald's much talked about affair...
...long, soggy peninsula where Ponce de Leon once sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union...