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...parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks, hobbyists and workers whose hands and eyes are otherwise engaged, are trying the best nonprescription tranquilizer available: Thoreau's Walden...
...recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked pretty Student Lia Walden, 24: 'Why don't those pious Catholics take offense at the naked putti and angels that dot our churches?" Said another: "The majority of passers-by seem delighted...
...momentum toward a new political alignment. Labor's right wing has been increasingly unhappy for some time, and, led by the popular Williams, the dissident Social Democrats could eventually attract a wide range of voters. That would seriously disrupt the country's two-party system. Said Brian Walden, a respected TV commentator and former Labor M.P.: "Nothing will ever be the same again in British politics." -By Jay D. Palmer, Reported by Bonnie Angela/London
...FRED WALDEN, vice president of Local 26, the union representing Harvard's dining hall workers, knows too well the feeling of being tugged two ways. As a negotiator at last spring's contract sessions, he recognized the need to get his constituency what it wanted--a wage increase in an inflationary era. But he watched in dismay as Harvard attached a proviso to its three-year deal calling for successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent raises. The University said it would contract out the Harkness dining hall at the Law School. To its credit, Harvard assured that none...
February, 1980: The union, settles for Harvard's original contract offer, a three-year deal calling for successive 10-9- and 8-per cent wage increases and minimal improvements in fringe benefits. Harvard's five other unions eventually agree to the 10-9-8. Fred Walden, vice president of the local representing the University's kitchen workers, acknowledges in June that "once HUERA settled for the 10-9-8, the other unions knew they couldn't get much more...