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...only 74 official strikes by 101,100 workers, with 733 000 lost man-days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor relations," says U. S. Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel, who just returned to Manhattan from a labor relations conference in London. "Any shop steward can call a strike in Britain, and the union's national leadership is powerless to halt...
...strict six-month waiting period for animal immigrants, which recently forced Richard and Liz Burton to charter a yacht to house their animals during a visit. The less expensive tote bag was Gayle's own idea. So was her final coup-getting a British European Airways steward to carry the bag for her as she left London for Majorca...
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...world of Massachusetts politics in the late 1950's and early 60's. In the 30's and 40's, Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," are plastered all over public buildings) met in the minds of some of the Boston Irish. It was this...
...wave of his Luger: "Vorwärts!" But the troops have been staring at their watches, too. Instead of charging, they march off-out of step-toward the canteen. "It's coffee-break time," says the squad leader to the Oberleutnant. "Take it up with the shop steward...