Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rose Bowl, and its first undefeated season ever, ran into rugged Wisconsin and lost 24-19. Like L.S.U., Northwestern looked better than its foe in statistics (which win no games) but hurt itself with fumbles. And Wisconsin Quarterback Dale Hackbart made his own breaks too, repeatedly riddled the Wildcat defense...
From Searsport, Me. to Corpus Christi, Texas, the great ports of the eastern and southern U.S. were as idle as millponds last week, immobilized by a sudden wildcat strike by the crime-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. Pickets in New York took a "coffee break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods...
...effect of "reducing the employees to mill slaves and the union to an ineffective puppet." He has even more personal reasons for standing firm: rank-and-file union members are deeply aroused over the threat to local working practices, and they might give McDonald real trouble-perhaps through wildcat strikes-if he permitted any weakening of the clauses...
Source of Friction. While the companies once proposed eight contract changes, they have now reduced them to four, involving changes in past working practices, penalties for wildcat strikes, scheduling hours of work, and vacations. Of these, says U.S. Steel President Walter Munford, the past-practices clauses "have become the source of more friction and grievances than any other section of the labor agreements." In its efforts to get them changed, management is pinning its hopes on a single clause that it has drawn up. But the clause is completely unacceptable to the union, and even impartial arbitrators...
...presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. "It's the most...