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...total work force. Another 500,000 are on short time, earning less than a full salary. Some union leaders are now being accused by the rank and file of softness toward management. During a recent strike in Turin, Carlo Donat-Cattin, the staunchest labor supporter in the ruling Christian Democratic Party, was practically yanked off the platform when he spoke at a rally. "The workers were already fed up with high prices," says Salvatore Guzzardi, a Turin metal workers' steward. "Now they're frightened of losing their jobs...
...Dobrynin meeting led in turn to one of Jerry Ford's most remarkable accomplishments of the week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
...arguing that only action would finally move the church. "God has been calling me all my life," said Katrina Swanson, 39, whose father, Bishop Welles, ordained her. "The time is right." With the Episcopal Church now in a gathering storm over the issue, some of the women's staunchest sympathizers are questioning whether...
...President's Staunchest Defenders...
...transplanted Yankee from Waterville, Me., Edward John Gurney was mayor of Winter Park, Fla., when he was elected to Congress in 1962. Six years later he became the first Republican Senator from Florida since Reconstruction. As the staunchest supporter of President Nixon throughout last summer's hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee, of which he was a member, the telegenic Senator earned national attention and conservative acclaim. Last week Gurney, 60, garnered a less lustrous distinction: he was the first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be indicted while in office by a federal grand jury...