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Meany, sounding as crusty as ever at 71, accepted uncontested election to a new two-year term. He also took a $25,000 pay increase, which brings his annual salary to $70,000. When Harry Bates, 83, president emeritus of the Bricklayers, resisted Meany's invitation to retire, Meany...
With only three weeks to go before the Dec. 5 election, De Gaulle is far ahead of his five rivals: most opinion polls give him a 3-2 edge in the field. As Carlyle once said, "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams." Now, apparently, no more epigrams.
If the formal academic world failed to inspire Booth, he synthesized his own philosophy by combining C. Wright Mills and Paul Goodman. Mills, he elaborated, depicts the distribution of political power in the U.S. and its irresponsible use, while Goodman emphasizes human potential and resourcefulness. A some what cynical outlook...
The Happy City. In the early years of the revolution, Havana retained much of its irrepressible, boisterous humor. Four years after Castro, the place still bustled, its hundreds of bars thronged with noisy knots of people guffawing over the latest rumors, its streets snarled with ill-tempered, horn-honking traffic...
To critics of France's internal economy, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced last week that the government plans to liberalize credits in order to spur investment and exports. That will do much to quiet De Gaulle's business foes. Criticism will also be...