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...basic industry last week shuttered up the mills that produce the bulk of its steel, the broad-based U.S. economy was so sound in its nonsteel elements that it suffered few serious effects. In Washington high Administration economists predicted that the walkout would not imperil the economic boom-unless it lasts a painfully long time. But the shutdown immediately began to produce a stock of troubles...
Originally at issue were demands by the printers, who average $40 to $50 for a 43½-hour week, for a 10% raise and a 40-hour week. Employers' groups flatly rejected them, later made an unacceptably low offer. The unions refused arbitration, called the walkout instead. Most provincial papers-about 1,100 weeklies and 87 dailies-soon were forced to suspend operations completely. Others put on the old school try, produced truncated editions using midnight oil and ingenuity...
...clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself, was not a man possessed by demons . . . He lacked the most necessary and awesome of demagogic gifts-a belief in the sacredness of his own mission...
Through the medium of a calmly worded letter from the White House, the U.S. last week got a last-minute reprieve from a nationwide steel strike. The negotiations were deadlocked, and both sides were bracing for a June 30 walkout, when President Eisenhower wrote to United Steelworkers President David McDonald, giving the union a face-saving way to postpone a strike that neither labor nor management wants. Wrote the President: "I suggest to both parties to this dispute that they continue to bargain without interruption of production until all of the terms and conditions of a new contract are agreed...
Fearful that the change might make less work for stereotypers, Leroy J. Selby, president of St. Louis Stereotypers Union No. 8, objected: "We have had these working conditions for over 35 years, and the publisher is trying to take them away." The walkout of his tiny local threw 3,000 out of work and left St. Louis without a daily newspaper...