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...pubs of mid-19th century England that wandering singers first came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing...
...tough to trade unionists. The petite wife of Ted Castle, political editor of the Sun, a national daily, she can be a rugged infighter. In her former position as Minister of Transport, she pushed through legislation empowering police to give "Breathalyser" tests to drunken-driving suspects. That enraged British pub owners, who introduced "the bloody Barbara," a drink consisting of tomato juice and tonic-but no alcohol...
...campaigning for the first basic labor reform in 60 years, Mrs. Castle is up against harder foes than pub owners or irate drivers. The problem of overlapping unions-there are 35 in the British auto industry, 16 in steel-leads to endless jurisdictional disputes. It also forces employers to bargain with many competing unions simultaneously and makes industry-wide negotiations almost impossible. Remarkably, unions are not bound by the agreements that they sign, and there are no legal provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to forestall even the most outrageous strikes. As a result, more than...
Last week, in a pub across from the shipyard, a worker said: "The QE 2 will be the last of her kind to be built at Upper Clyde. It's maybe just as well." It would be misleading to hold up the new Queen as a reflection of all that ails Britain's economy. But it exposed anew the casual management and slapdash workmanship that has become all too common in a nation anxious to regain the grandeur of the past...
Like Cheek, Henderson puts a high priority on urban studies, is establishing a Southern Center for Studies in Pub lic Policy with a $25,000 planning grant from the Field Foundation. He is also using grants to pay for an upcoming seminar on the economic development of black ghettos and a program to upgrade Negro college newspapers...