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STEELWORKERS UNION is just waiting for an excuse to pull its 1,100,000 members out of the C.I.O. and suspend its $1,200,000 annual-dues payment (35% of C.I.O. income). Long resentful of C.I.O. (and United Auto Workers) President Walter Reuther, the Steelworkers have asked Pittsburgh newspapers to stop referring to them as part of the C.I.O., may formally consider secession at their September convention. The excuse may be a jurisdictional fight at the Torrington, Conn, plant of American Brass Co., where organizers for both the Steelworkers and the Auto Workers are locked in a no-quarter struggle...
...tackling a problem, says Osborn, a student must first learn to suspend the "judicial" part of his mind, for nothing is more inhibiting to the free play of ideas than to stop after each one and say: "No, that's no good." Once a person has accumulated a "pile of alternatives," he can then make a decision. Meanwhile, he must indulge in a process called "brainstorming"-letting ideas pour out, no matter how preposterous...
Many of these were "premature returns" -a trade euphemism that simply means the books were shipped back without even being unpacked. At least four companies were planning to suspend publication for the summer. One of the largest and best paperback publishers is cutting book production by a third, and industry output may be cut by as much as a half...
citizen who can't be trusted-according to the investigators ... I am prompted to quote Poet Arthur Guiterman: Providence, that watches over children, drunks and fools, With silent miracles and other esoterica, Continue to suspend the ordinary rules, And take care of the United States of America...
After several weeks of discussion, however, the board of trustees refused to accept the committee's recommendations and voted instead on the motion of Governor Emerson, head of the board, to suspend Novikoff without pay as of July-15, it before that time he failed to agree to answer any questions which the Jenner committee might...