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Workers claim that the auto companies are getting tougher in other ways, too. Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing." Says Bob Breece, president of the U.A.W. local at Chevrolet's Flint, Mich., motor division plant: "They come in and say, 'If you don't give concessions we're not going to give you this work or we're going to shut you down.' " Breece's plant is due to close in May or June of next year...
...libretto, is on the grandest scale. It lasts five hours and 40 minutes and requires a large chorus and 120-piece orchestra, including extra brass and winds, a large percussion battery and three electronic keyboard instruments called Ondes Martenot. The orchestra is so big that it overflows the pit to envelop both sides of the stage and several boxes. The subject is the spiritual transformation of Francis the man into Francis the saint. "I have chosen Francis," says Messiaen, "because he is the person who most resembles Christ: chaste, humble, poor and bearing the stigmata as a mark...
...already struck a deal with N.V. Philips' Gloeilam-penfabrieken of The Netherlands to sell switching equipment throughout the world. Says Gerrit Jeelof, head of Philips' Telecommunications Division: "It was a natural marriage between two of the most desirable partners in the world." The new subsidary will pit AT&T against GTE and ITT in the European market, which it abandoned in 1925 to concentrate on the U.S. telephone system. AT&T and Philips could pry open an unusually tough market long closed to outside suppliers because of dominance by state-owned post, telephone and telegraph services...
...Dental School yesterday renamed its main building in honor of the late Sera Gelfand Deutschman '21, who bequeathed the school $3 million upon her death. After a luncheon of scrod and blusberry pit at the Harvard Club of Boston, President Bok called Deutschman a "great friend of the Dental School and a great admirer of its work...
Ordinarily, the rugged mountain towns of Morenci and Clifton are close-knit in an almost feudal way, drawn together by their common employer. Morenci (pop. 2,700), dominated by the huge white pit of the copper mine and the two monster smokestacks of the smelter, is the archetypal company town. Phelps Dodge, which has enjoyed a reputation as a generous employer, owns the water and electric utilities, the county hospital, the gas station, the motel, the bowling alley, the high school and a new Spanish-style shopping center featuring the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Co. (easy credit terms). Workers earn...