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...Chicago, Columbus Day Parade Chairman Victor Arrigo denounced the Yale map as a "Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill...
...upstart company that has successfully applied the new technology to this cordwood is four-year-old Iowa Beef Packers of Denison, Iowa Already highly automated, Iowa Beef in November will open a new plant in Dakota City, Neb., that will apply a complete assembly line to beef cattle The carcass will be put on a moving assembly line the minute the animal is slaughtered. In quick operations, the hide will be yanked off, the entrails and carcass dropped on separate conveyor belts and every part claimed by different workers along the line. Such imaginative techniques already in use have given...
...Monolithic. It will not be easy to settle a dispute between two unions that differ widely in tradition, temperament and tactics. Basically, the oldest union in the newspaper business is pitted against the youngest. The 113-year-old I.T.U. looks down on the 32-year-old Guild as an upstart. The I.T.U. is a world unto itself, a "monastic and monolithic world," in the words of one top labor arbitrator. All its members work at essentially the same job, tend to share the same interests, see each other socially. The union provides almost cradle-to-grave security: a training center...
...president of the National Football League's New York Giants founded in 1925 by his father Timothy, who inherited the team in 1930 and with his younger brother Wellington led it through the lean years of World War II and a costly 1946-49 fight against the upstart All-America Conference to the top of the heap with an unequaled 14 divisional and three world championships and an estimated value of $10 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Ghostly Silence. The television potential, along with the South's sports-minded population, explains why the N.F.L.'s Commissioner Rozelle is so anxious to beat the upstart A.F.L. into Georgia. The stronger N.F.L. has already lined up equally prestigious backers to support a franchise. Among the members of a syndicate dickering for a team: Texas Oilman John Mecom Jr., Indianapolis Speedway Owner Tony Hulman, Coca-Cola Heir Lindsey Hopkins Jr. So far, Atlanta's Stadium Authority has been playing it cozy, says only that no decision on rental rights will be made until July...