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Neither side wanted to show its hand until the last minute. Reuther remained mum about what "substantial wage increases" might mean, offered no clue as to the relative priorities of his 28 other major demands. The automakers decided not to put their proposals on the table until this week, only ten days or so before contracts expire on Sept. 6. The idea was to give the union less time for the usual grandstanding rejections of early offers-but the U.A.W. managed a bit of histrionics anyway. Woodcock saw it all as an industry plot that was "geared to making...
...zanne watercolor still life of a milk jug and apples, which brought $406,000-the highest price ever paid for any watercolor at auction. Since the bidder was a Los Angeles dealer, people speculated that he had acted for Collector Norton Simon, who remained mum. A Degas bronze horse pranced off for a record price of $51,800. A Chagall picture (circa 1917) brought $84,000, a new record for him. All in all, Sotheby's knocked down for $2,962,960, 87 works of art, a record for any one-day sale of impressionists and modern masters...
...girls teamed up. Vanessa washed her own hair in midafternoon, then summoned Beverly Hills Coiffeur Carrie White for a comb-out and had her add a cascading fall for greater thickness. The whole business took all of ten minutes. Lynn, meanwhile, puffed up her own do as well as Mum's (Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave...
...Dear Old Mum. Caine plowed ahead through 31 years in repertory, bit parts in the movies and television-mixing it all with survival jobs in laundries, factories and a pie-baking establishment. He did not get a real chance to break loose until he landed a featured role in 1964 in the movie Zulu, "an African western," and that in turn led to Ipcress...
...background of any story about a hero's rise from squalor to quiddery there should be Mum; Caine's is just about the best since J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. He reports that he has finally persuaded his mother to give up her lifelong job as a charwoman. When he invited her to attend the première of his first big movie, she shyly refused, then, unbeknownst to him, just joined the crowd outside. She still takes the bus to his openings. "She used to tell me proudly...