Word: provisos
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Moving in to take advantage of this split, Reuther himself settled down to secret negotiations with American Motors. At week's end, the company agreed to give the U.A.W. everything it wanted in a new three-year contract: cost-of-living and productivity increases, plus a proviso that 10% of American Motors' pre-tax profits will be paid out to workers (after the top 10% has been skimmed off for shareholders...
...seating both pro-Communist delegations, Britain and the U.S. agreed to a final position paper that contained a scribbled Rusk provision that the Laotians could sit only "as observers with the right to speak." Home showed the document to Gromyko, and they jointly announced complete agreement-but the scribbled proviso had somehow disappeared. Feeling betrayed and angry, Rusk cabled Kennedy, who reluctantly decided to go ahead with the conference rather than face the neutralist complaints that the U.S. was "obstructionist...
...swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive...
Already a member of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, lovely Candida is also enrolled in an evangelical sect called Pilgrim Zeal, which has promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...
...bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that the stables must be sold, but added the proviso that any of his heirs had first priority to buy. Karim himself is expected to be the first to be first in line with cash in his hand to preserve for the family the prime racing stock developed by Mme. Vuillier-la magicienne de l'Aga Khan...