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...effort to organize trade unions or soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army organizations have sprung...
...more poignant because Heltzer, Cross and Hansen were held in highest esteem in the tightly knit and circumspect business community of Minneapolis-St. Paul. And the 3M Co., Minnesota's largest employer, prides itself on its finely developed sense of civic responsibility. Actually, 3M's travail is a classic example of the post-Watergate traumas that have plagued many U.S.companies that made illegal political campaign contributions...
...ordeal of testifying was finally over for Watergate Conspirator John Dean, who stuck steadily to his story under the often clashing cross-examination of lawyers for the defendants in the Watergate cover-up trial. But the travail had barely begun for Federal Judge John J. Sirica and the 21 lawyers locked in the multisided legal struggle. Already, tempers were turning testy. Frequently, the drama centered more on the extraordinary exchanges among the judge and counsel than on the fate of the five defendants...
...most crucial element in any stage treatment of Happy Days is the way Winnie's optimism is portrayed; therein lies the play's real philosophical substance. Winnie's happy and resigned demeanor is the thing that sustains her through her travail, and it must be taken seriously. The task facing the director and the actress playing Winnie is to explicate and elucidate her faith, and this is the Loeb's major failing in the current production...
...week to join Ted at the simple graveside ceremony marking Robert Kennedy's death six years ago. Then she took Daughter Kara out shopping while Ted fulfilled his commitment as surrogate father to Bobby's children, accompanying Ethel Kennedy to commencement exercises. Although Joan looked relaxed, her travail may not be over. Friends think she is cautiously testing herself to see if she is well enough to stay home. One insider said: "I have the impression that this is a furlough; she may have to return to Silver Hill soon...