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Subways Are for Sleeping jumped the gun on Transport Chief Michael Quill's threatened New Year's Day subway strike in New York. Five days earlier this musical staged a song slowdown, a dance walkout and a star lockout, and then sat down on its flat, flat book...
...world's ten-best-dressed-women stakes, opened to the public a gemlike boutique in Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Located just two blocks from where her estranged husband, Louis Arpels of Van Cleef & Arpels, traffics in tiaras, the new establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that would choke a Gabor: "I'm so amused with...
...sale last week by International Business Machines. The product of ten years' work by IBM's engineering staff and Industrial Designer Eliot Noyes, the new machine types faster and is far simpler to handle than conventional models, which IBM hopefully predicts will soon be as obsolete as quill pens...
...Army. Dumped by the regular Democratic organization, Wagner is desperately shopping for influential backers. But so far he has produced only former Senator Herbert Lehman, avuncular head of a small reform Democrat movement. James A. Farley, far removed from the inner circles of New York politics, and blustering Mike Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union. With such a ragtag army, Wagner is almost sure to lose to Levitt if he insists on entering the Democratic primary. But the mayor is also the Liberal Party candidate, and can run on the Liberal ticket in the general election. At that time...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Should public employees have the right to strike? Union Leader Michael J. Quill, who last summer was almost mightier than the Penn, debates with Fred A. Hartley Jr., Taft-Hartley Act coauthor...