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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students courses in such ordinary subjects as administration as well as such esoterica as "Astronomy, Cosmology and the Science of Creative Intelligence" (SCI, as it is always called, is the grand and somewhat amorphous theory behind TM). The revenues of the World Plan Executive Council-U.S., the umbrella name for the burgeoning American TM movement, now amount to $12 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: THE TM CRAZE: 40 Minutes to Bliss | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...work as a machinist. When John L. Lewis set up the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935, Matles practically singlehanded converted his AFL-affiliated colleagues in the International Association of Machinists into a new union, which he called the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Under that umbrella name, it became one of the CIO's most influential arms. As director of organization for the U.E., Matles gained a reputation as a left-leaning leader as well as an articulate, precise negotiator. In 1949 the U.E. was ousted from the anti-Communist CIO, and Matles was briefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1975 | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

Harvard also faces negotiations with the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC), an AFLCIO umbrella union representing 353 Harvard workers. The present contract will terminate on December 7, and a major internal dispute in the MTC is likely to complicate the negotiating process. Most MTC members at Harvard belong to the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 877, which, at the moment, is at loggerheads with the four other labor units in the MTC--Local 103 of the electrical workers, Local 12 of the plumbers, the District Council of Carpenters, and District Council 35 of the painters. Harvard is watching the situation...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Ed Powers: A Lawyer As Harvard's Labor Boss | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...perhaps unorthodox but still dictatorial system. Then, too, nobody could discount the possibility that if the drift toward anarchy continues, the old right wing, powerless since the April 1974 revolution, might stage a coup. Indeed, the anti-Communist activities led by the armed forces' moderates provided an umbrella for all kinds of non-Communist groups, including former backers of the overthrown Caetano regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Anti-Communists Strike Back | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Phyllis Keller, assistant dean of the Faculty, yesterday called the new post "an umbrella...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Shinagel Gets Job Overseeing Summer School | 8/15/1975 | See Source »

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