Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month swung into action against the publishers of the provincial papers-"the last Scrooges of England," as one unionist called them. The union has demanded 19%% to 39% pay increases on minimum salaries that now range from $70 to $91 per week. More important, it has demanded a closed shop, which would make it the sole representative of all British journalists, including reluctant editors...
...Guarantees. N.U.J. leaders maintain that their bid to establish closed shops is a tactic designed only to strengthen the union and hike wages -not to control editorial policy. But the publishers and many of their editors, including Alastair Hetherington of the highly respected Guardian, contend that what is at stake is freedom of the press. They claim that hi the past, labor pressure has forced the removal of articles critical of unions. Now, editors fear, in a closed-shop situation their jobs would depend on what they say in print. Said the London Times: "If the editor can be required...
Earlier this month a delegation led by Denis Hamilton, editor in chief of the Tunes Newspapers, Ltd., and Hetherington of the Guardian visited Employment Secretary Michael Foot. Their purpose: to ensure that editors stay free of the closed-shop proviso. Foot, a veteran Labor leftist, former journalist and member of the N.U.J., was unmoved...
...Plunkett's athletic triumphs and praise have been matched with personal hardships. His Mexican-American mother, who lives in San Jose, Calif., is blind as was his part-Irish father who ran a tobacco shop before he died in 1969. Plunkett and his two older sisters helped to support their family when they were on welfare. In high school, he worked in gas stations and grocery stores, and between summers in college, he joined construction crews...
...didn't know anyone there, and rented a room. July and half of August passed without my noticing them. I took out a library card, using it a couple of times a week to check out great heaps of garbage: science fiction, mysteries, fantasy. There was a pizza shop two blocks from my room, and I stopped there periodically, buying three or four whole pies at once. They were stacked in my room and eaten over several days, washed down with warm quarts of beer. I had no refrigerator, nor cared whether the beer was warm or the pizza cold...