Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First meal served in the Harvard Union...
Sentimental Favorite. At least 4,000,000 people in the Soviet Union play chess regularly, including 30 of the 85 players in the world who are ranked as international grandmasters, the equivalent of karate's black belt. Every town from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays...
...Prime Minister capitulated after members of the Trades Union Congress voted 8,252,000 to 359,000 against the bill, which included provisions to fine wildcat strikers. Bowing before labor's overwhelming opposition, Wilson even promised to scrap penalties in any labor-reform measure for the lifetime of his government...
...When news from the outside world seemed to be of mayhem in the universities, we decided to do something other than riot," says Lauri Noreila, president of the student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...
...student union of Helsinki's Technical University set the pattern for student capitalism after World War II. It built dormitories, even using bricks salvaged from the rubble of the Soviet embassy, which had been hit by Russian bombers at the outset of the Russo-Finnish Winter War. Student "commandos" raised money by persuading engineering executives and 6,000 alumni to donate. Today, the union's dorms and cafeterias do a $1,700,000-a-year business and provide temporary jobs for scores of students. Together, the three student unions have a fulltime payroll of 1,000, including...