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...started drifting west in a brand-new Buick Wildcat. He worked his way across the country to New Mexico, taking pictures of real estate for insurance appraisers from time to time. In Albuquerque in mid-1966, a month before his mother's death, he enlisted in the Army. Once in uniform, he was soon recommended for officer candidate school, commissioned a lieutenant and posted to Viet Nam. His elder sister. Mrs. Marian Keesling, of Gainesville, Fla., reports that Calley clothed and fed a little Vietnamese girl; one day he returned to find the child's house bombed and the girl...
...want status, just warmth and style." With youth in mind, and to revive a market that dropped 40% in sales between 1947 and 1967, Kaplan branched out into inexpensive furs like mink paw, fitch and squirrel. When they caught on, he went farther still-this year into wildcat, Spanish bull and monkey...
...Brighton, too, not everyone was following Heath's tune. He is campaigning as a moderate "Man of Principle" dedicated chiefly to reducing prices, taxes and strikes. The last issue gained special pungency as the wildcat walkout of 6,000 London "dustmen" entered its third week, spread to other cities and yielded Everests of offal similar to those of New York's 1968 garbage strike. On one issue, however, old-line Tories severely tarnished the progressive image that the party is attempting to acquire. They voted overwhelmingly to end Britain's five-year experimental suspension of capital punishment...
...nations of the Continent have long belittled Britain for its inability to curb wildcat strikes. Last week wildcatters in the shipping and motor industries were giving British officials fits, as usual. Suddenly, however, those walkouts seemed as harmless as prolonged tea breaks compared with what was happening across the Channel: > In Italy, 130,000 workers left Turin's Fiat plant, and thousands more struck the Pirelli rubberworks in Milan, in both cases for higher wages. In the first six months of this year, walkouts cost some 81 million man-hours. Worse is in prospect, for labor contracts affecting half...
...than risk disorders. Sure enough, hardly had some 25,000 metalworkers and 50,000 coal workers walked off their jobs than they won wage hikes of 11% and 13% respectively. What bothered Germans more than the size of the settlements, however, was the fact that both were won in wildcat strikes -a tactic almost never used by West Germany's well-disciplined labor unions. Some businessmen wondered aloud whether Germany had caught the "English sickness" that allows British shop stewards to close whole industries in defiance of national union leaders...