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Sadlowski, who went to work at 18 as a machine oiler for U.S. Steel in Gary, and has been working in union jobs since age 22, will have none of that tradition. He talks an unabashed 1930s brand of labor radicalism, naming as his heroes Socialist Eugene V. Debs and John L. Lewis, and describes his goals for the Steelworkers in the single word change. He rails against "tuxedo unionism" -the proclivity of leaders to hobnob with management-and pledges to reduce union salaries, presumably including the president's $75,000 a year. He wants less noise and dirt...
Among Sadlowski's biggest targets is the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, signed in 1973 by the U.S.W. and the steel companies and first applied to an actual contract in 1974. The agreement was hailed as a model of labor statesmanship because it combined flexibility on wages and benefits with a prohibition against strikes. The three-year contract now in effect, for example, gave the workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled...
Biggest Coup. Among many other things, Wall forged two medium-size steel firms into Sweden's largest privately owned steel and foundry company, built a small licensing operation, Crawford Door, into Europe's leading maker of overhead sliding doors, and acquired Pribo, a major food-processing and leisure-goods conglomerate. His companies greatly expanded trade with Eastern Europe, exporting manufactured goods and importing meat, fish and other raw materials. In 1974 Wall scored one of his biggest coups by swallowing up Scandinavian Trading Co., which has become one of Europe's leading independent oil firms...
...Javacheff (professional name: Christo) in his dense Bulgarian accent, talking to a reporter in 1968. Last week this prediction was coming true-more or less-as Christo's latest project, Running Fence, moved toward completion on the coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering amounts of time...
...metaphysical breakfasts" where faculty from different departments can discuss major educational topics. "At too many places," he says, "individual departments function as noncommunicating intellectual fiefdoms." O'Brien plans to teach one course for seniors called "Last Chance Philosophy" and to invite representatives of such institutions as CBS, U.S. Steel or the Metropolitan Opera to participate in courses examining the roles they play. The purpose: to bring students closer to "the realities of American society...