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Durham, N.H.--A capacity crowd of 4000 devout Wildcat fans watched the University of New Hampshire come from behind to edge Harvard's varsity hockey team last night, 3-2, in Snively Arena here...
...papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers...
...decision to strike against Chrysler when contracts with all three manufacturers came up for renewal this year was no coincedence. In a record-breaking year of Chrysler sales, the corporation's employees had conducted several wildcat strikes to protest working conditions. The cited poor ventilation, oily floors, excessive heat and dangerously faulty equipment...
Union leaders, however, said that the biggest reason for the choice was that they are determined to concentrate on "noneconomic" issues, such as better working conditions, rather than pressing for outsized wage boosts. Last month they staged three wildcat strikes, mostly over safety issues and other working conditions. The most important demand is that workers be allowed to refuse overtime. U.A.W. officials say that in preliminary talks, Chrysler negotiators exhibited less of a "knee-jerk reaction" against such demands than GM or Ford officials. Indeed, almost as soon as they were targeted, Chrysler officials expressed willingness to raise wages...
...legends that trailed him throughout his long lifetime, none seemed to please Eddie Rickenbacker so much as the legend of his invincibility. "I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know," he liked to boast. "And I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down...