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...would henceforth operate full scale and that workers would be paid for overtime and piecework. Haughty Don Elisardo took back the 1,400 hungry, silent men in black berets who had dared to strike against him. But he had a triumph anyway: he called them all "new employees." Every striker was penalized by losing his seniority-a man with 40 years' service was hired on the same basis as any young lad just out of school...
...report to work, 50% of the workers yielded. Two thousand men in black berets hung around outside the gates in silence. "Sorry, friend," said one worker as he left the plant at night, eyes cast down. "The woman has no money for the market." A striker answered without hostility: "I know, brother. I am lucky. I have no family...
...Striker Edwin A. Gramm, a machinist working on F-86Fs, who, though not a union member, stayed out for three weeks before going back, summed up the strikers' troubles. "Things got too tough for me," said he. "My car insurance came due. That's $120. The taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked...
...detractors. In the past, critics of Smith have only had to point to his autobiographical book of True Travels, a tangle of yarns as wild and incredible as any medieval romance. Author Smith offers strong evidence, culled from 17th century Hungarian records by his associate, Dr. Laura Polanyi Striker, that even the tallest of John's tales were probably true, and that he was, in fact, not just in fancy, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan adventurers...
...state were in such good order that the President found time for the first real relaxation he has had since the inauguration. One day last week, he knocked off for an hour after lunch and whacked golf balls around his backyard, while ex-Sergeant John Moaney, his Negro striker, shagged them. Later in the week, Dwight Eisenhower (who has trouble sleeping if he goes very long without exercise) was able to take his first afternoon off for 18 holes of golf with Omar Bradley, Washington Banker Robert V. Fleming and Colonel Thomas Belshe, an old friend, at swank Burning Tree...