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...truck drivers managed to escape their sinking vehicles, unable to aid their driving partners asleep in the back. Bill Needham, 27, of Kernersville, N.C., was pushing a tractor-trailer rig to Milwaukee when he hit the water...
...their pre-Voluntter experience as well as from talking with them, I gained the impression that a number of them had become more sensitive, more aware of themselves and others--for in community development, the principal instrument one has to work with is neither a shovel nor a tractor, but one's self...
Despite their misgivings, most businessmen predict rising sales next year. "We are backing up our forecast by increasing production," says Chairman William Blackie of Caterpillar Tractor Co. "Most businessmen I meet feel we're going to succeed-in spite of Government." Optimism, however, is often tempered with worry over strikes, rising labor costs, and, inevitably, squeezed profit margins...
...Pattern. The new pattern is already emerging. Reuther's 7% will almost certainly spread through the auto industry, and from there to industries less able to afford it. The ink had hardly dried on the Ford contract when the U.A.W. exacted a similar settlement from Caterpillar Tractor Co., which was the first of five farm-equipment makers to face contract negotiations this year. And the United Steelworkers Union last week cranked up for contract talks soon to begin with can manufacturers by issuing a policy paper outlining a Ford-style settlement. For his part Reuther's next task...
...parts for American Motors Corp. than other U.A.W. workers at A.M.C. went out on a wildcat strike over a minor squabble. And beyond Ford, where it has 160,000 workers on the streets, the U.A.W. has 30 other strikes under way. Among them: a walkout of 25,000 Caterpillar Tractor Co. employees and a strike involving 4,500 Burroughs Corp. workers...