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Reuther runs-with managerial efficiency-the largest U.S. labor union: the 1,500,000-man C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.); he has signed up 250,000 new workers in the last four years. Last week he achieved a triumph and a great victory for labor, winning from Ford Motor Co. a form of guaranteed semiannual wage for laid-off workers. This week he wrung similar terms from General Motors, the world's greatest manufacturing corporation...
...York Post: The agreement between the Ford Motor Co. and the Auto Workers Union is a landmark of industrial democracy in the U.S. According to the ancient Marxist cliches, the union's demand should have precipitated a long and violent class struggle. Walter Reuther was advancing a proposition that would have been generally considered revolutionary two decades ago. There will be diehards who call young Mr. Ford a "traitor to his class." But in the history books he will be remembered for a contribution to the social engineering of this century as momentous as the mechanical wizardry...
Black Horror. The car was shattered by the impact: its flat motor hood ripped loose and scythed through spectators like a guillotine knife. The heavy engine followed, spewing parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...
...also found an astute sergeant of the Cambridge Traffic Bureau tagging 'foreign cars" which had been in the State more than the 30 days allowed. That sergeant was the present State Registrar of Motor Vehicles, J. Rudolph King...
...Newspaper Publishers Association reported this week, the auto industry (which accounts for 24% of the ads) spent most with a 7.9% increase to a record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million. The next nine, in order: Ford Motor Co., $17,999,652; Chrysler Corp.,$11,787,596; Colgate-Palmolive...