Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...games marked the start of the biggest of this year's labor-management confrontations-U.A.W. negotiations with Detroit's Big Three for a new wage contract covering 700,000 auto workers before the old pact expires on Sept. 14. The workers seem to be in a better mood than in 1970, when rank-and-file anger at being left behind on pay led to a disastrous 67-day strike...
Nevertheless, money is the one universal hang-up for foreign visitors. For one thing, non-U.S. currency is almost never accepted by American stores-as the dollar, despite its current troubles, still is in many overseas nations. U.S.Travel Service officials still recall with horror the case of a Canadian woman who broke her pelvis in a fall while visiting Los Angeles; outrageously, the hospital to which she was taken refused to admit her until Canadian funds were converted to cover a cash deposit. Medical treatment in general is a frequent source of irritation to visitors. "It costs...
Yesterday, however, a U. S. State Department spokesman said the department was "suspicious" of Hasting's allegation, because the magnitude of the alleged massacre was greater "than we would think it possible without us knowing anything about...
William S. Olney '46, director of special projects of the office of Alumni Affairs and Development speculated yesterday that Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka's visit to the U. S. at the end of July could be significant in evaluating the outcome of the universities' efforts...
...have been too busy to worry about how they looked. No woman leader has been seen wearing a dress in public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...