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...preferred more direct action. A onetime seaman, he first roiled the San Francisco local in the mid-1950s by assailing its leaders' cozy relations with contractors, later ired the painters' Indiana-based Big Brotherhood by merging two Bay Area locals that covered the same territory-a convenient setup for employers who had been able to play off one against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike...
Davies' new line at the least should equal the $150 million in revenue that the three separate lines brought home last year. Though that would put it ahead of the longtime No. 1 U.S. shipper, United States Lines (1965 revenues: $114 million), the new setup is aimed less at U.S. competitors than at foreign opposition-particularly Japanese. In the last year and a half, no fewer than 24 Japanese carriers have merged into half a dozen major lines, become the West Coast shippers' chief rivals along the lucrative transpacific and Far East trade routes...
...Crimson struck for three goals in the opening five minutes of play while holding the Indians scoreless. Steve Neubert sent the stickmen out in front by converting on a quick stick setup from Keith Hutchinson...
...beleaguered auto industry last week came under stress from a new quarter-with serious implications for its nationwide dealer-franchise setup. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that General Motors and three Chevrolet dealers' associations, in fighting discount-house car sales in the Los Angeles area in 1960-61, had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in "a classic conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...committee setup has caused complaint on two grounds. First, it has been said that the self-perpetuating nature of the group has made it more cliqueish than before and more prone to accept the applications of other old Loeb hands. If a director has put on a play in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, someone on the committee, or one of the Faculty advisers who sit with them is likely to have seen it. If he has acted in Loeb shows and directed elsewhere, his Loeb friends will probably have seen his shows. But if he has no connections...