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Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once and Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi. Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import-the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce. The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces-Send Me No Flowers (closed), Under the Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice. In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies...
...common among British labor unions, of bringing a rebellious member back in line by "sending him to Coventry."* In this case, the rebel is a machinist (Richard Attenborough), an ordinary bloke who sticks to the telly and minds his football pools, until one day the Works Committee calls a wildcat strike that he considers senseless. Along with about a dozen other men, he refuses to take part in it. Factory toughs terrorize the holdouts, and all but the hero come to heel. "Don't do to step out of line these days," somebody mumbles resignedly. But persecution only gets...
...Advance. Part of Eastern's troubles is an $8,000,000 loss of revenue that it suffered last summer in a twelve-day wildcat strike. The line is also carrying a heavy jet debt. It chose to begin writing off its $140 million debt for its new jet fleet before all the planes were delivered, must bear the brunt of the payments (the monthly interest charge alone is $583,000) without having the jets in service to help pay for themselves. It has also been hurt more than the other airlines by the Electra's troubles since...
...unions-including the railwaymen's Redlining Demetrio Vallejo and the teachers' Othón Salazar-to postpone wage demands for one year until Lopez Mateos could pay off some inherited government debts. Vallejo took the request as a sign of weakness and in March 1959 called a wildcat strike. Lopez Mateos cracked down hard, threw Vallejo and 2,600 other railwaymen into jail. Vallejo and about 500 strikers have been there ever since without trial. Ex-President Cardenas, still a hero to Mexico's masses, demanded "justice and comprehension" for them. Then Cardenas traveled to Fidel Castro...
...Cunard liner Sylvania lay alongside Southampton's Ocean Ter minal ready to sail for New York. Jus before sailing time, 200 members of her 440-man crew walked off the gangplank in a wildcat strike for higher wages. Cap tain William Law called the passenger together in the tourist lounge. "Do you want to sail?" he asked. Yes, shouted th passengers. "All right," said Captain Law "I'm woefully short of catering people Working hours are from 7 in the morning until 9:30 at night. You'll make abou $22 a week. There...