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Tots Teeth. At week's end, arriving exuberantly in Texas for the Easter holiday, Johnson announced new plans to expand the Great Society. At a bill-signing ceremony to celebrate a two-month extension of the medicare registration deadline-held characteristically at a federally financed home for the aged in San Antonio-Johnson said he would ask Congress next year for "increased insurance benefits, across the board, for 21 million beneficiaries" of social security, plus free dental services under medicare for children...
...care to remember. The longest major labor dispute in U.S. history, the Kohler strike began in April 1954, when workers at the plumbing-fixtures plant stormed out in a disagreement with the family-owned firm over a series of union demands for higher wages and fringe benefits. After a two-month closure, the factory resumed production with nonunion labor, touching off six years of intermittent violence in the company town of Kohler. Pickets wore gasmasks, clashed bloodily with non-strikers; in one battle 300 people were arrested. The company charged more than 1,000 acts of vandalism...
Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
Inevitably, the result of this squeeze has been layoffs, shutdowns and cutbacks. Last week Germany's Rheinische Stahlwerke, whose industry orders are down to a two-month backlog, cut the work week for 1,500 men. Britain's Richard Thomas & Baldwin-the only large steelmaker still nationalized-announced plans to shut down two open hearths at Ebbw Vale, thus idling 300 men. Giant August Thyssen-Hütte, Europe's biggest steel company, gloomily expects to cut its work hours soon...
...closer relationship." The relationship -whether worked through merger or outright purchase-is clearly aimed at stepping up Chase Manhattan's competition with First National City Bank, the second largest U.S. bank, which bought up half of Hilton's Carte Blanche in September. This week, after a two-month advertising barrage, Pittsburgh's two largest banks-the Mellon National and the Pittsburgh National-will expand their longtime competition to a new dimension by bringing out their own credit cards...