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Help or Hair Shirt. In Britain, contracts are brief, often oral, and sealed with no more than a handshake. Though the Germans rarely strike (only 34 strikes all last year), the French have a way of striking at any time without warning; wildcat walkouts are especially prevalent in Britain, where the courts have little power to intervene. U.S. businessmen are often taken aback by the anti-capitalist polemics, greater militance and puzzling multiplicity of the labor unions. The British have 190 unions, and a company such as Ford must negotiate with more than 20 on each contract go-round...
Livers turned the tables in the 120-highs, the most exciting race of the day. Lynch led most of the way, but the Wildcat speedster caught him at the last hurdle and was a little bit stronger in the stretch. Both men were clocked...
...that the spirit will last. Now, says the Rev. Robert Spike of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, "we face the question as to how we can put flesh on the content of this commitment." Spike believes that there were "a lot of foolish, wildcat activities" at Selma, and some clerics, notably Roman Catholic and Episcopal bishops in Alabama, wondered whether men of the cloth should have been there...
Harvard skiers finished high in Class B and Class C slalom races last Saturday at Wildcat Mountain in Gorham...
...gale winds and 20-ft. waves, crews of the American Overseas Petroleum Ltd. last week began boring into the shallow center of the North Sea. Their quest-for natural gas to supply fuel-shy Europe-will be one of the world's most closely watched explorations. The wildcat operation off Dogger Bank, a favorite ground of herring fishermen, is the first to probe Britain's portion of the continental shelf. It is involved in a prospecting race that has roiled the waters of the North Sea and shows promise of reshaping Europe's entire energy market, which...