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Alas, not all our familiar symbols of Uniondom can stay, though according to Buckley all the artifacts will find a place somewhere at Harvard. The inconspicuous Spanish-American War canon that huddles beneath the center stairwell has yet to find a resting place. "We're trying to find happy home for it... canons just don't have the popularity they might have had in earlier times," says Buckley. The baseball collection from upstairs might endue across the river in an athletic facility, and some of the many portraits in the Union will accompany the Class of 1999 to Memorial Hall...
Either way, the issues of the McDonald-Abel fight were certain to reverberate like an anvil chorus for a long time in steel uniondom and in the executive suites of the industry. In his campaign, Abel accused McDonald of "tuxedo trade unionism," a euphemism for the charge that McDonald has been too friendly with Big Steel's management. McDonald, said Abel, had failed to keep in touch with local problems, had "swept them under the rug, and now the mound is so high you stumble over...
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