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...twenty-first century (as Victim thuds dully onto the science-fiction bandwagon), and there's an international murder tournament called "The Hunt," government-run to sap the aggressions of potential war-mongeers. Anyone who survives ten hunts becomes a "decathlon" and retires with a lush government pension...
More Pan than the Europeans. American bankers moved strongly abroad in the wake of U.S. corporations that were establishing Common Market operations. The banks came along to handle financing for old customers, as well as such routine stateside services as company payrolls and pension funds. With branches spread through the Common Market, they discovered they were more Pan-European than the Europeans, solicited European business as well as American...
That last bitter issue was finally ironed out last week. Kohler agreed to pay some 1,400 former strikers a fat Christmas gift of $3,000,000 in back wages. The company will also fork over $1.5 million in pension-fund contributions. The settlement, tied to a new one-year contract, was sealed by U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey and Kohler Vice President Lyman C. Conger with a handshake. Despite the most extensive boycott campaign ever mounted by organized labor, the effect of the long dispute on the company was hardly shattering; Kohler today is still a leader...
There he stayed for 17 years. Police kept him on their "wanted" list, but cunningly, Yvonne Vasseur shopped for two on her tiny widow's pension by dividing her purchases among several shops. She knit him special slippers with felt soles, so that the neighbors would not hear him. In his garret Vasseur learned seven languages to add to his French and German; she learned Latin to help him along, brought him down to watch TV on quiet nights. In 1962, police discovered him accidentally. Paying a routine call on Mme. Vasseur, they rang the neighbor's doorbell...
...centra] organizations on which both sides once relied to promote industrial stability." Though they had talked over the issues for a full six months before the strike, neither the Times nor the Guild was prepared for serious collective bargaining. On the crucial question of the Times's pension plan, the "Guild did not bring in either an actuary or a program until after the strike, but neither did the Times meet the Guild's full-information request until after Ted Kheel urged it to do so. The mediator told both sides that he was 'shocked...