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ROSSINI OVERTURES (Deutsche Grammophon). These brief episodes are gems that rank with the wisest and wittiest works of Mozart. In them Rossini displays a full range of musical motifs, from somber reveries to brilliant marches with a Pied Piper fascination. Tullio Serafin conducts the Rome Opera Orchestra with elegance and exuberance...
...this rank-and-file union member, your Essay on union labor [Sept. 17] missed the boat. Neither militancy nor affluence is the significant feature of union labor today. It is power and solidarity on a national scale as reflected in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership that counts. This power and solidarity is neither capitalistic nor capitalism. It is an effective counterbalance to the power of big business and big government. As long as it stays independent, it will serve the nation's interests...
...voted out of office as it is for a baseball player to thumb an umpire from the ballpark. The effects of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 are changing some of that. Among other things, the law required that unions overhaul their constitutions so as to give rank-and-file members more protection against fraud and coercion in voting on their leadership. Thanks in part to more democratic procedures, six major national union heads have been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally...
Talking like a Dutch uncle even at the risk of suffering the cruel label of Uncle Tom, used by many Negroes to avoid thinking about the merits of moderation, Wilkins boldly argues that the Negroes' goal is to "rank at last as men among the world...
Despite this seeming deadlock, Pittsburgh is optimistic. Union negotiators, headed by Abel, Vice President Joseph Molony and Secretary-Treasurer Walter Burke, feel considerable pressure from their own rank and file to settle peaceably. Under an interim agreement, management has been putting in escrow 11.50 an hour for every steelworker since May 1, and once the contract is signed, each worker will collect about $80-enough to buy a portable TV set or put a down payment on a used car. Abel himself is eager to make a statesmanlike impression in his first real test since wresting the presidency from Dave...