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...popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular, if sometimes remote, beaches; Herman Wouk lives there and Labor Leader Michael Quill has a house there; it is otherwise chiefly notable for vacations on the cheap-11,000 college students from the U.S. turned up there last Christmas...
...Teamsters are larger today than in 1956; the Steelworkers, the Auto Workers, the Machinists and the Carpenters have grown smaller. Since 1956, the labor movement as a whole has lost 1.500,000 old members and gained 1,500,000 new ones. But, as Transport Workers' President Michael Quill admits, "we have organized the new ones because we compelled them, through closed-shop agreements, to get in line...
...shop's objects include quill penn, porcupine quills, preserved sea horses, and items like polished dinosaur bones which can be made into jewelry. According to Mrs. Max Hall, who runs the shop with Mrs. Don K. Price, this year has been marked particularly by a "craze for dinosaurs...
...Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled on the job. In reprisal, Transport Workers Union President Michael Quill led his 6,500 Fifth Avenue Coach workers on strike, and for perhaps the first time in living memory found the public on his side. Weinberg slapped back with a $37,305,000 damage suit against the union, claiming it struck "wrongfully, willfully and wickedly." Mayor Wagner charged that Weinberg...
...third domestic airlines-American and Eastern-declared their agreement to merge, opposition revved up on all sides last week. Other airlines, fearing sharper competition, protested. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said the merger plan has "the most serious of monopolistic implications"; Representative Emanuel Celler said he would investigate. Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union worried about layoffs among the 9,000 American maintenance men that it represents, threatened to strike after Feb. 1 unless the two lines pledged that there would be no job cuts. Bobby Kennedy was yet to be heard from...