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...recruiting hard in 1972. Better organized and well financed, the Teamsters, by stressing their professionalism and reliability, won contracts with about 375 California growers. Before last week's elections, the Teamsters' membership in the California fields had risen to 55,000, while the U.F.W.'s had shrunk to 6,000 and its contracts to twelve...
...rise of the organization man. In 1940 about 26% of the male labor force was self-employed. By 1960 the figure had shrunk to 16%, and by 1970 to about 10%. Of the self-employed, about 1.7 million people are independent farmers; there are also 9.4 million small businesses. In all, about 75 million Americans today are wage-and-salary employees...
...rational individual would want to go back to the presidency as it was before F.D.R. The world has become so complex that there are many important areas where government must help men to determine their own destinies, and the oceans behind which American isolation once flourished have shrunk until they would be mere passing specks beneath intercontinental missiles. But it is possible, particularly after more than 40 years have passed, for even the most valuable of reforms to defeat its own objectives by going...
That year Yastrzemski also became the highest paid player in baseball. Catfish Hunter could claim that honor now, but Yaz's salary certainly hasn't shrunk, and since 1967 the money, the batting order, the hype, his longevity as the Sox's oldest veteran, the team leadership he has always displayed (sometimes challenged by the younger players on a club that has had its share of dissension), and the memories--these combine to put an incredible amount of pressure on him, the man who replaced Ted Williams. And since '67 he has flirted with the hopes of the people dangerously...
...report, authored jointly by Huntington, Michael Crozier of the University of Paris, and Joji Watanuki of Sophia University in Tokyo, stated that "demands on democratic government have grown, while the capacity of democratic government seems to have shrunk...the United States and Western Europe need to restore a more equitable relationship between governmental authority and popular control...