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...original plan to keep the statistics only for Administration use, Jim Mitchell decided to share them with the country. Many an anxious reporter and confused citizen hoped to find in the Mitchell report a solution to the five-week-old steel strike. But the report produced more of a sputter than a bang. It bent so far backward to be impartial that each side in the steel dispute immediately claimed vindication for its own cause...
Basic & Bothered. The grimness came with the sudden realization by pickets and public that management had its teeth clenched. Setting a post-World War II precedent for a major industry, the steel companies let the negotiations sputter to an end without making even a minimum money offer for the workers to think about. The steelworkers had offered to settle for the same terms they won in 1956 after a 36-day strike: a three-year contract with a yearly raise of about 15? an hour, plus a cost-of-living escalator clause. Management's counteroffer: either...
...renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly began to rattle, sputter and stall like an antique Moscow taxi...
Terrible-tempered Texan Tommy Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were supposed to be sportsmen...
While Dorothy thumbed the Saturday Evening Post, her pilot-husband radioed ahead to Rawlins, Wyo. for the weather, learned that a vicious storm front was spreading across surrounding Carbon County. As they flew through the grey fringes of the storm at 8,200 ft., Dorothy heard the engines sputter; then her husband shouted: "Hang on, darling, we're going to crash...