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...from exorbitant; they are asking for a salary increase from $1.10 to $1.35 per hour, time and a half salary for overtime, leaves of absence without loss of seniority and a contractual clause barring discrimination in hiring or firing based on "race, political activities, union activities or national origin." The waitresses also demand that they be reinstated...
...cases mentioned in LAW to the names of all 47 Charlie Chan movies (we came up with 39). Others are eager to let us know when they think that they have detected an error. Often they are right, but occasionally the "corrections" themselves need further checking. When the origin of the Pop art smile button was at issue, 40 readers claimed credit-individually...
...button, he can command a list of the names of voters who support him-and thus require only his limited attention-or a "sway" list of independent and undecided voters, who should get more of his time. Properly programmed, the computer can identify subgroups by occupation, ethnic origin, even hobbies, then dispatch "personal" letters, circulars or telephone messages as needed. Surveys have shown that personal messages, even when identified as coming from a computer, are highly effective and often cheaper than television spots. One firm charges from $10,000 to $13,500 per congressional district; a one-minute TV commercial...
...American needs to be told that the Jarrow hunger marches in 1906 are built deep into the nation's memory, and into the background of her characters. Class differentiation in the film as seen, to be gradually disintegrating. Bob represents a classless agent, although his implicit working-class origin has strong reverberations for the English. Somewhere, Gilliatt says, "Bob has a dad who didn't want him to go down into the mines, who wanted much more for his son than he had for himself...
...Medvedev, 46, a historian of the humanities, takes a more sweeping view of the Soviet past. He also takes as many risks as his brother. Earlier this fall (TIME, Nov. 1), KGB agents searched Roy's apartment and confiscated his bulky manuscript Let History Judge: The Origin and Consequences of Stalinism. But not before a copy had reached the West, where it will be published early next year...