Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executives and middle-echelon employees have been transferred to Houston in the past three years. Shell Oil Co. is in the process of moving about half its staff there from Manhattan. Other recent refugees from metropolitan New York include Occidental Chemical Co. and Cooper Industries, an engine and tool producer. At some point, Houston may want to adopt as its official motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
...bargaining breakthroughs that once seemed radical but have since become commonplace: long-term contracts, company-paid pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplementary benefits for laid-off workers, a form of guaranteed annual income. Auto workers' wages rose from the 850 an hour that Reuther earned as a young tool-and-die maker in 1926 to an average of $4.03 now. His successor, with no such rec ord to call on, will be under far more rank-and-file pressure to prove that he is driving a hard bargain...
Freud called dreams "the royal way to the subconscious," but LSD may be a better psychoanalytic tool for unlocking some of the mysteries of human mind, Dr. Stanislov Grof told an audience of 150 at the Medical School last night...
Died. Walter P. Reuther, 62, for 24 years president of the United Automobile Workers and champion of progressive trade unionism; in the crash of a small chartered jet near Pellston, Mich. Reuther, who started as an apprentice tool and die maker at 15, went on to become one of the most controversial figures in the U.S. labor movement. Fired by Ford for union activity in 1933, he later worked as an organizer for the fledgling U.A.W., survived severe shotgun wounds in 1948 to pioneer the guaranteed annual wage principle for the automobile industry in 1955. Reuther led the C.I.O. into...
...concentrate on the related issues. A psychology course examined the psychology of racism, seminars were held on such subjects as "The Law of Conspiracy," "Race and Class Conflict in Modern Society," "Language and Revolution." Signs were plastered everywhere urging KEEP THE PEACE and warning that VIOLENCE IS THE TOOL OF FASCISM. The residential colleges opened their courtyards for the bedding down of visitors. The university provided slim but sustaining meals of salad and rice for all comers...