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STEEL UNION REBELS rolled up surprisingly high vote in move to unseat President Dave McDonald. Preliminary count gave Insurgent Leader Don Rarick (TIME, Dec. 10) more than one-third of the ballots, which he interprets as a mandate to keep the anti-McDonald bloc intact and try again for election in 1961. Steelmakers fear Rarick group may try to outdo McDonald in contract demands, thus put squeeze on industry...
...revolt was uncoordinated, lacked funds and headquarters, had as its leader a little-known rank-and-filer named Don Rarick, 37, for 19 years a worker at U.S. Steel's Irvin works. A fortnight ago Rarick was also named to head the slate that will oppose the McDonald team in the union-wide elections next February. Said Rarick last week: "I dare McDonald to show that he's got as many steelworkers behind...
Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond...
...story ends with Tycoon Rarick eating milk and crackers to the strains of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh...