Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Scenes. The big sticking points were 1) length of contract-the industry wanted five years, McDonald two-and 2) weekend premium pay. For about a week, as the two sides bargained in Pittsburgh on the issues, the Administration kept to its hands-off policy, leaving it to Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan to help keep the talks going. But when the going got tough, Labor Secretary Mitchell called a secret meeting in Manhattan between McDonald and the presidents of U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel. The Pittsburgh talks were resumed. Then, on July 21, the bargaining broke up. McDonald...
...privately at a Pittsburgh hotel. Said he, when the labor leader entered: "Dave, I'm here for an agreement." By day's end the two men had compromised their final difficulty: Stephens cut his five-year contract demand in return for a softened version of the weekend premium plan. In negotiations last week in Manhattan, the technical details were worked out. The major ele ments in the settlement: ¶ For the industry: a threeyear, no-strike contract, the first in 20 years...
...human failure, architects tried to explain why the compartmented Andrea Doria sank. In the U.S. an adjourning Congress, without determining its questionable right to act. authorized an investigation of the sinking. Overseas, Italians and Swedes bitterly blamed one another for the loss. Meanwhile, grimmer figures were being figured. The weekend total: 25 dead...
...prolonging a story that keeps his name in print. Throughout the week he piled on new copy, calling on the President to express his attitude in unmistakable terms, accusing Len Hall of trying to ram through Nixon's nomination, arranging for still another vice-presidential poll. This weekend, on Face the Nation. Stassen said he was "foreclosing any consideration" for President or Vice President in order to bring about an "open" 1956 convention. "Forever?" asked a reporter. Said Harold Stassen...
Students at Tanglewood this weekend--the next to last one of the season--will have the chance to hear works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Zino Francescatti as soloist, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in C major. Conductors will be Eleazor de Carvalho Friday, Leonard Bernstein Saturday, and Charles Munch Sunday...