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...State Labor Relations Commission, in settling last week's strike, ordered the city and the union to submit the unresolved issues to binding arbitration and select the arbiter within 14 days...
Doctorow's mother was a pianist and his father owned a record and musical-instrument store in Manhattan's Hippodrome Theater building-components of Ragtime's vanished New York. After graduating from the select Bronx High School of Science, he studied literature at Kenyon College in Ohio. It was the kind of education that sharpened his critical faculties at the expense of his creative talents. "I had to purge myself of the sense of the writer as an intellect," he recalls. The purge has worked. Ragtime is free of the self-consciousness of form that mars most...
...examine top-level White House and National Security Council files. After studying the data, Church plans to call as witnesses such key figures of the Kennedy Administration as McGeorge Bundy, Walter Rostow and Robert McNamara. In addition, both Church's committee and the recently reorganized House Select Committee on Intelligence are interested in learning what control Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may have exercised over the CIA'S more recent clandestine operations abroad. "Before this thing is over," says one congressional source, "Kissinger may find himself right in the middle of the CIA controversy...
This year for example, nearly $5 million was raised for the proposed $26 million Soldiers Field sport complex by such an approach. A campaign for construction and renovation of athletic facilities was staged to attract support from a select group of friends of Harvard athletics who do not wish to give money for other purposes. This approach, Peterson maintains, will not hurt funding for scholarships and educational resources...
...France, BSN, a giant glass company, has a committee of 30 workers (representing 14,000) who meet once a month with management to discuss a broad range of subjects: more flexible working hours, altering certain retirement plans. At the Renault auto company, Mitbestimmung translates as "job enrichment": Renault workers select components and assemble them at their own pace, cutting one to two hours off the previous assembly time...