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Though the reception was cordial in most places, the First Lady was deluged with hostile confetti at a social service center in Portland, Ore. Each scrap of paper was imprinted: "If this was napalm, you would be dead." This greeting, planned by a protest group that has offices in the same building, was accompanied by banners and placards taunting her about Viet Nam and hunger. As Pat gamely launched into her speech, seven barefoot girls in black burst into the hall and chanted an antiwar hex on her in crude doggerel...
...Prime Minister capitulated after members of the Trades Union Congress voted 8,252,000 to 359,000 against the bill, which included provisions to fine wildcat strikers. Bowing before labor's overwhelming opposition, Wilson even promised to scrap penalties in any labor-reform measure for the lifetime of his government...
...return for his surrender, T.U.C. leaders promised to dampen wildcat strikes by ordering their unions to send workers back to the factories-if and when the leaders see such action justified. If the unions refuse, the T.U.C. would expel them. Irate Tory critics called the promise "a scrap of paper." Last year about 1,900 wildcat strikes stymied efforts to resuscitate Britain's economy. The penchant for sudden strikes stems largely from the fact that British labor contracts are not legally enforceable. Until they are, there will be little chance to change the landscape of labor anarchy in Britain...
October 3: Student and Faculty members revived the yearly struggle over dress standards in the Houses. The Faculty Committee on Houses--made up of deans and House Masters--offered to scrap the "rule" requiring coats and ties at all meals and replace it with a "well-defined expectation" that students would wear coats and ties at dinner. The Harvard Undergraduate Council objected, saying that individual House Committees should be able to decide for themselves...
What Is Needed. The homes often cut costs in disconcerting ways. Baltimore-based Community Health Facilities keeps only one registered nurse on duty at a time in each home and relies heavily on nurse's aides, who get only $1.30 an hour. President Richard Rynd, 38, a onetime scrap-metal dealer, openly scoffs at a competing home that employs registered nurses rather than aides. "No wonder it loses money," says Rynd. Like most operators, Rynd has no full-time staff physicians or dietitians. Even so, his homes exceed Medicare's staffing standards, which call for only one registered...