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...walkout meant that two of the four major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed...
...strike over a five-minute relief period all but shut down car production at Chrysler last week. Beginning with a walkout of 400 workers at the main Dodge plant, the stoppage soon idled 41,440 workers as parts shortages halted production in the major Chrysler plants. The relief period of five minutes an hour (in addition to regular relief periods) was first arranged because of special fatigue problems, such as extraordinary heat, though the company claimed that technological improvements later eliminated the problems. So that no actual output would be lost, the United Auto Workers agreed to speed...
...cleared in court last week for the pilots of American Airlines to strike-if they want. A New York federal judge lifted a restraining order that had prevented a walkout by the pilots, who want higher pay and shorter hours to fly American's new jets, insist that the third man in the cockpit be a pilot. The pilots announced that they would not walk out immediately, promised to give the public sufficient warning. One hopeful sign that the strike might be averted: the resumption of negotiations between American and the Air Line Pilots Association in Chicago...
Mark J. Mirsky '61, who was originally to direct the Gogol show, has been replaced by Louise Bell '59. Mirsky was involved in the recent walkout from the HDC production of The Good Woman of Setzuan, but denied that the HDC incident had anything to do with his departure from Drumbeats and Song...
...time in history, two of the nation's four biggest airlines were downed by strikes-and a third was losing altitude fast. At Eastern Air Lines, 5,383 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out, along with 550 Eastern flight engineers. The Eastern strike and the walkout of machinists at Trans World Airlines (TIME, Dec. 1) shut down close to one-third of the nation's air transport system; 388 planes were grounded, and the 32,000 passengers they normally carry each day had to scramble to find other transportation. To make matters worse...