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...turned up in Chester. His mission: switching White's workers from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to a shadowy, thug-ridden outfit called the Interstate Industrial Union. Last week, after White fired a few employees who were collaborating with Dugan. Intruder Dugan set up a picket line outside the plant...
...playing smoothie among women's college presidents, Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence. Mendenhall's favorite sport is rowing-he rowed at Oxford, watches Yale crew practice in all weather-but he has perfected a crushing game of croquet at Berkeley. Students there are agitated about his departure. Picket sign carried last week by one Yalie: "Take us with you, leader...
...high school, "but I felt it just didn't fit me." Meanwhile she had mastered a few folk songs, and because "nobody else in town knew them," she soon found herself strumming and humming for the glory of organized labor: "I must have sung on every picket line the U.A.W. threw up." Even after she moved to the jazzy West Coast, she stuck to her guns, occasionally found some unique ammunition. Item: a girl "who was a little bit loony" led her ta a piece called Don't Sing Love Songs, You'll Wake My Mother, which...
...decade, Burton powerfully dissented from the ruling that Du Font's 23% stock ownership of General Motors violated antitrust laws (TIME, June 17, 1957). He authored last May's conservative-leaning opinion that a worker kept out of his place of employment by a union picket line may sue the union for damages in a state court (Warren and Douglas dissented...
...Similar retaliation would meet any hostile move against U.S. ships convoying Nationalist men and supplies through the Red picket line around Quemoy. The news behind this promise: orders had already gone out to the Seventh Fleet to break the blockade by escorting Nationalist supply ships to within three miles of Quemoy-and perhaps all the way to the beach if Chiang's gunboats failed to beat off Red raiders...