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...years ago, insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should have. Said he: "The labor movement has to pay its top executives what business would...
...happy solution." But other C.I.O. chiefs felt that it was "a conglomeration that we'll have to live with for at least two years." Almost everyone admitted it would present problems for a union like the International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters Helpers and Terrazzo Helpers American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations...
...CAFE, since then, Johnson has built up a force of 1,100, constructed housing, set up a sawmill, bakery, tile and brick factory, gristmill and nursery, planted 1,260,000 coffee trees. Paraguay, which cooperated with CAFE by easing laws on currency exchange, now promises to become for the first time a coffee producer, and a competitive one. Said President Stroessner, after his tour of the new plantations: "What Paraguay needs is 100 men like Señor Johnson...
Happily for watch-standers, all decks are covered with a composition tile that is a lot easier on the feet than the usual naked steel. Fluorescent lighting has replaced the traditional harsh, caged lightbulbs of older ships. Hatch-openings, rocket launchers and other shin-cracking hazards are sprinkled with buttons that glow at night. Throughout, the ship is a symphony in color-dynamics: "Sarasota brown," "Clipper blue," pastel green. Marine prints and woodcuts adorn the bulkheads...
...Cover) The sharp, rhythmic tattoo of a fast buck and wing ricocheted off the tile floor of a Sacramento bathroom one day last week, and echoed through the door. Visitors in the adjoining suite of offices heard distinctly the merry foot-tapping and understood the message it telegraphed: The governor of California was happy...