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With contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the three big automobile manufacturers still stymied, the U.A.W. last week stepped up the pressure on the companies. A sudden rash of wildcat strikes virtually shut down plants in Michigan, Ohio and Delaware; by week's end almost 16,000 workers had gone out. Their reasons for striking were often thin-in one case a leaky water pipe. More important, the U.A.W. high command, which has been discouraging strikes-at least publicly-seemed to have a change of heart. It was not only doing little to get the membership back...
...negotiators heatedly denied that the scattered strikes represented overall union policy. But as they prepared for top-level U.A.W. strategy sessions this week, it was plain a showdown was near. Early predictions had been that Ford would be struck. But last week, with more than two-thirds of the wildcat strikers out at G.M., the pressure had shifted. Best guess on when a strike would be called: around Oct.1, when 1959 Chevrolets should be rolling...
...Link, 56, once chief geologist for Standard Oil (N.J.), who was lured out of semi-retirement in 1955 by a tax-free salary of $100,000, plus the promise of a free hand. He has put together 15 crack geologic field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some 1,350,000 sq. mi. of potential sedimentary deposits. The big snags are a mile of solid rock beneath the surface in potential oil lands and, above...
...Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich, last week, a General Motors official tacked up an offer of a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of persons who have damaged 96 car chassis since June 1. These acts of sabotage, plus a rash of wildcat strikes, were symptomatic of the bitterness that has grown between automakers and the United Auto Workers in the two months that they have worked without contracts. Both sides are gearing for the final showdown. Last week the U.A.W. announced that it had secretly polled its membership, found more than 90% in favor...
Getty went back to Los Angeles and joined his father in buying and selling leases and drilling wildcat wells. He took up bodybuilding, hired professional wrestlers to tussle with him in his basement gym. By night, he squired a galaxy of bright young girls through the best West Coast nightclubs. In 1923, at 30, he married Jeannette Demont, 18, whom he had met in Los Angeles. Three years later, after the birth of his first son, George Franklin Getty II, they were divorced in Mexico. Next year Paul married Allene Ashby, 17, a Texas rancher's daughter and excellent...