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...measure of labor's past success that the cause no longer seems to cry out for crusaders. Says Harry Van Arsdale, president of the New York City Central Labor Council: "How far can a young college graduate go in a union? Compare his opportunities there with those at General Motors. We all know that a young man's future in organized labor is limited." For those motivated by idealism the real excitement is elsewhere, as in civil rights, on which organized labor's attitude is ambiguous. While the national leadership has constantly backed Negro rights, many locals...
...Steelworkers. Under it, any worker displaced by automation goes into an employment "reserve," receives his average wage of the past while being retrained and waiting for reassignment. Kaiser also offers vacation time based on productivity gains. Variations of the Kaiser-Steelworkers' arrangement are being tried out elsewhere with success. The Electrical Workers, for instance, are organizing training courses to teach members to work in atomic energy and other advanced fields. But organized labor as a whole has hardly begun to face up to the problem-and the opportunity-of automation...
Ayub Khan had even less success with Nehru's successor, Shastri. After a private meeting in Karachi, Ayub said that Shastri was willing to compromise on Kashmir but felt he was not strong enough to convince his own government. Ayub added, "I told him that, as Prime Minister of India, it was his duty to build public opinion in favor of a satisfactory solution. He might be criticized by some elements, but the bulk of the Indian people would thank him for relieving them of a great anxiety." Ayub concluded that it was impossible to reach an agreement with...
...success, Steven, now 57, was never very popular with the Chronicle's owners. They are the trustees of Houston Endowment Inc., a $400 million nonprofit foundation that was set up by the late Millionaire Jesse Jones and converts earnings from a wide range of interests into scholarships and support for the arts. Steven reversed the paper's conservative policies and put it squarely behind integration. The Chronicle helped integrate the Houston schools and more recently, the all-city symphony orchestra...
...best they could achieve was partial success, and it probably would have come even without them. The trouble lay mainly with the British, who ignored their carefully documented reports on Turkish military dispositions, kept Singer waiting in anterooms for three helpless years. Not until his desperate agents managed to hand over the Turkish army code did the British take them seriously, and by that time the invasion had already been planned. When Palestine finally fell to the British, most of the ring's principal members were dead and the Jewish communities decimated. And as Singer had predicted, the survivors...