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...more heartening developments in this year of expiring labor contracts has been the restraint shown by big unions in their demands for pay boosts. A case in point was the settlement between the United Rubber Workers and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., which granted increases totaling 810 an hour over the next three years-a figure within the Administration's 5.5% Phase III guideline. But last week the fragile peace came to an end as 10,300 U.R.W. members struck B.F. Goodrich, halting work at plants in six states and shattering a long period of labor tranquillity in major...
...backward and neglected interior, he called for a year-long "national rally" to raise $10 million in development funds before his 60th birthday next month. The goal was utterly unrealistic; by last week the campaign had collected less than $2,000,000, including $250,000 cajoled from the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the country's largest employer. But Tolbert defends his fund raising as a symbolic success. "We don't want a classless society," he says, "but we must narrow the gulf between the too few who are high and the too many...
...most telling of these incidents is Malle's view of a group of mechanics trying to fix a flat tire. Ten of them jump on and off the tire trying to fit it to a rim that is too large. They don't understand that technology will not allow certain possibilities. Similarly, at the site of a derailed train Malle highlights another strange mixture of men and machines; dozens of workmen pile rocks under the wheels, forming a ramp for the train to move onto the track...
...Clint Eastwood, looking as if someone had pushed him from the wings, took Heston's place-and immediately ran into trouble with his cue cards. "This isn't my bag, man," he complained to the cameras shortly before Heston, who had been delayed by a flat tire on the Hollywood Freeway, relieved him. And so the night digressed...
...Fichter had been expected to lead the Harvard effort, but it was not until the IFAs that the foil team headed the Crimson effort. Weiss was the most consistent of the trio, but extra pounds tended to slow him down on the strip, and he had a tendency to tire late in the matches, especially late in the season...