Word: settlements
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Another objective of Scouting's new look has been to broaden the base of Scout sponsorship, long confined largely to churches and civic groups. Because of national council initiatives, Scout groups run by public-housing authorities have increased since 1960 from 210 to 704, those sponsored by settlement houses from 250 to 380. There are now 39 Scout groups at federal Job Corps camps, 14 at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer alone. As a "middleclass institution," says Job Corps Official David Gottlieb, Scouting appeals to Job Corps boys who "want to make...
...would shake the hand of Harold Wilson. If it does not, he must expect criticism." There was no evidence whatever that Wilson would bow to Kaunda's demands. Since economic sanctions against Rhodesia have failed, Britain has shifted its position and now seems prepared to negotiate a settlement that will leave Smith firmly in power...
...first time, New York's four-week-old newspaper strike showed signs of a settlement. The printers' boss, Bert Powers, settled with the publishers, and World Journal Tribune President Matt Meyer spoke with unaccustomed optimism. "The typographical union," he said, "did not burden us with restrictive practices and extra manpower that would cripple us before we started. The settlement is expensive in terms of money but not in terms of numbers of men. So far as our composing room is concerned, we can operate reasonably competitively with other papers in New York...
Both publishers and unions agreed that a favorable climate for further settlement had been created at last. By the end of the week, four other craft unions had settled, and the rest of the craft unions are likely to come around soon. But a speedy end to the strike was by no means assured. It is the Newspaper Guild, after all, that took to the picket lines, and the Guild's demands cannot be met with money alone. The question of seniority in hiring for the new papers has yet to be resolved. Guild Chief Tom Murphy has said...
...package settlement, the French let go of a lever that they had used to pry the farm deal out of the Germans, who want free exchange of industrial goods among the Six. The French agree to drop the remaining 20% tariffs on such goods by July...