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Assuming UConn and UMass win their first-around matches, the Huskies will kickoff against the fourth-seeded Oregon while the Minutemen must tackle the Tar Heels. Regardless of who wins those matches, the ensuing semi-final should be a close physical battle which may take its toll on the victor...
...Crimson's biggest asset remains its ability to create opportunities and to capitalize on them. Whomever Harvard plays, the contests will surely be close and the victor will probably be the squad which gets the breaks. And in that case, the booters stand in good stead...
...suddenly realize that Mike, too, will be a Great Master someday, and may even turn into the next Harvy C. Mansfield. But Mike's claims of intense academic effort by Yale undergraduates are not easy to deny, especially when you go looking for Mike's friend Victor, whom Mike suggests may have a better idea about who serves the best draught beer in town. Amid the hundreds of students frenetically cramming a month before finals, who all give you strange looks because your Converse sneakers squeak ever so slightly, there is no problem finding Victor. Isn't that, you wonder...
...Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...
Antiunion sentiment seems to be everywhere, and not just among white-collar suburbanites. A symptom of this was the public support President Reagan got when he fired 11,500 air-traffic controllers who struck illegally in August. Says Victor Gotbaum, head of New York City's largest (109,000 members) public employee union and one of organized labor's most powerful voices: "Not even Eisenhower or Richard Nixon did that...