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Crimson Coach Floyd Wilson went with Johnson and Grate at the guards in the second half, seeking a little more speed to help beat the bothersome Wildcat press. Johnson and Grate--who had spent most of the first half on the bench--responded well, scoring eight points piece, rebounding, and--most importantly--looking for the open man on offense, to give Harvard its best team effort of the year...
Needing Every Penny. Labor, too, with its fierce class antagonisms still smoldering and its "I'm all right Jack" attitudes, has stoutly resisted any modernization of British industry that infringed on shop-hardened rituals. The unions' push for wages, backed by a proclivity for wildcat strikes unmatched in any country, sent hourly earnings soaring some 40% from 1960 to 1966. While Britain's productivity grew by only 18%, West Germany's was rising 29% and Italy's 40%. The result was that British goods were priced out of the market, while Britons used their money...
Reuther admittedly aims to pressure Ford by keeping its rivals going. Yet last week he had no sooner cajoled restive workers back to Ford plants that make parts for American Motors Corp. than other U.A.W. workers at A.M.C. went out on a wildcat strike over a minor squabble. And beyond Ford, where it has 160,000 workers on the streets, the U.A.W. has 30 other strikes under way. Among them: a walkout of 25,000 Caterpillar Tractor Co. employees and a strike involving 4,500 Burroughs Corp. workers...
...well, the lack of contracts with G.M. and Chrysler frees those companies to hire and fire at will. It also suspends payroll deductions for union dues, enables the companies to ignore seniority rights and normal grievance arbitration procedures. Beyond that, by making the U.A.W.'s constitutional ban against wildcat strikes inoperative, the contract expirations will no doubt encourage union militants to stage local walkouts. Any production curtailment at G.M. or Chrysler would ease one of the main pressures on Ford to come to terms...
...baseball season got under way last week - with President Johnson tossing out no fewer than three balls at Washington's D.C. Stadium to make it official - the cry of "Strike!" meant considerably more to most Americans than a waist-high pitch right over the plate. It meant wildcat walkouts by Teamsters and a retaliatory lockout by employers that held up two-thirds of the nation's truck-borne freight. It meant Huntley without Brinkley, at least until the 13-day TV-radio strike was settled. It meant the prospect of a newspaperless New York City for the fourth...