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Garrulous and profane, an almost compulsive talker, Strauss is a throwback to the era of the smoke-filled rooms. At a time when the far-out liberals and the deep-dyed conservatives threaten to pull the Democrats apart, Strauss is the great compromiser who is dedicated to strengthening the center, which he defines as the "progressive middle" of the party. The job is ticklish, but Strauss points out: "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive...
Quirky amendments to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act also threaten to increase city costs by extending minimum-wage and overtime provisions to public employees next year. Policemen, for example, will be paid overtime for hours worked beyond 60 in any given week, even though some of the first 60 hours were spent in uniform working not for the city but for a department store as a guard. Salt Lake City Mayor EJ. Garn estimates that the amendments will cost his city $500,000 next year in increased pay alone and more than $3 million three years from...
TIME'S description of AFL-CIO lobbying [Nov. 25] is grossly inaccurate. We don't beg or threaten. We expect members of Congress to keep the promises they made to the voters...
Eban said that although it was "disquieting" that a 26-year-old state needed public demonstrations of support, rallies for Israel were necessary because the forces threatening Israel also threaten Western civilization's "principles of international civility and order...
...crashing of pots and pans, protesting food shortages and inflation. Passers-by would turn to watch. It was the best entertainment in town, but even the policemen seemed bored by it all. Strikes were a daily happening. The bus drivers would refuse to work or the doctors would threaten to walk out. One day the Catholic Church gathered all its parochial schools together to stage a demonstration in the center of town: thousands of Catholic high school students in their blue uniforms chanting political slogans in pre-pubescent tones behind stone-faced priests robed in black, each looking like...