Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRAT JOHN KENNEDY has long counted on the California presidential primary as his best chance to show dramatic vote-getting talents. But a Brown victory would shut Kennedy completely out of California. If Brown wins, he will almost automatically become a favorite son candidate for President-and a genuine hot prospect for the Democratic nomination for Vice President. And although both he and Kennedy are Roman Catholics, that very fact would keep them from ever being on the same ticket...
...some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which he ordered framed and passed) to shut down the schools, cut off all state funds...
With contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the three big automobile manufacturers still stymied, the U.A.W. last week stepped up the pressure on the companies. A sudden rash of wildcat strikes virtually shut down plants in Michigan, Ohio and Delaware; by week's end almost 16,000 workers had gone out. Their reasons for striking were often thin-in one case a leaky water pipe. More important, the U.A.W. high command, which has been discouraging strikes-at least publicly-seemed to have a change of heart. It was not only doing little to get the membership back...
...General Motors' Fisher Body plants were shut down, and some 7,000 workers walked out of a Pontiac assembly plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...
...share in one day. The suffering shorts asked the exchange to declare an official "corner," which would mean determining a "fair" price. The exchange declined, though it reimposed its moratorium last week-leaving the shorts still holding the bag, but hoping that the exchange keeps it tied shut until the fight is over and, hopefully, the stock declines...