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...their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors of a warehouse should be opened or closed...
...bomb. Hoping to promote his new division of the world into "Nefos" (New Emerging Forces) and "Oldefos" (Old Established Forces), Sukarno had invited 60 emerging nations, advertised that 20 heads of state or government would be on hand. But 24 potential Nefos were disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors...
However, the News is scheduled to appear Wednesday, published by members of the paper who did not join the walkout, Raymond Mongo spokesman for the striking faction said last night. He added that a majority of editors had quit...
...President may be withholding the appointments to use as leverage on management and labor to prevent a national steel walkout. But even if his reasons are not so misplaced, his tardiness only frustrates the implementation of needed legislation protecting a vital civil right...
...normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their jobs everywhere except in Texas and South Atlantic ports...