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Company by Company. With the rank and file solidly behind him (93%, he claimed), the Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald was in a demanding mood. He stayed away from a scheduled mediation session with steel-industry spokesmen and Chief Federal Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan. He demanded that the steel industry agree to negotiate company by company (industry negotiators surprised him by agreeing, but made it clear in asides that the agreement was a mere gesture). He sent his lawyers into the U.S. district court in Pittsburgh to seek rulings requiring the industry to 1) grant an immediate...
Junketeering Press. So vigorously did the press pursue the day-by-day chronicle of shady shenanigans that TV spokesmen quit muttering "We were duped" long enough to fight back feebly. "What are the newsmen to criticize our ethics?" they asked. The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould (see PRESS) quoted unidentified network executives who accused almost all TV writers of being "junketeers," i.e., free loading travelers who let networks, ad agencies or sponsors pick up the tab for a trip. And as if to divest itself of any further blame for thus "corrupting" the press, NBC canceled...
...steel companies bungled their campaign. First they asked too much: a sweeping grant of authority to change plant work rules in the name of "efficiency and economy." Then they failed to justify the demand. Company spokesmen charged that the work rules foster "featherbedding and loafing," but never supplied a solid example to document the charge or a solid specific on how the authority to change the rules would be used. When Mediator Taylor asked Bethlehem Steel Negotiator John Morse to explain just how the work rules created problems in particular mills, Morse replied that he was "afraid the panel would...
While Government and industry spokesmen worried on about how to solve the crucial problems of the nation's railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss...
...Army spokesmen termed the test a success, although the missile fell short of its goal because of an apparent failure during the coasting phase of the missile's flight...