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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personality against mass society. "If the parish can be relieved of many pressures which it cannot sustain, it offers the most hopeful front for taking post-Protestant America and helping shape it as newly Christian America. It must be informed from the theological centers as it is not at present. As denominations and parishes 'take upon themselves the form of the servant' and . . . sacrificial living ... we shall see the liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud society and the quiet but more effective religious impulse unmoved by obsessive revivalizing. Such movement is likely...
...Holding Out." The issues-and causes-were as complex as the fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...blasted American Airlines as having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line...
...accounted for 9.2% of U.S. auto sales in October and is still pushing up speed. Rambler's freewheeling President George Romney scheduled 34,000 cars for December and 32,000 for January. He not only expects to sell 150,000 cars in the first six months of his present fiscal year, but he is ready to expand even more...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty although, in movie-making terms, it is sometimes tatty Tati...