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...Government. It maintains expensive U.S. vessels on essential world routes by providing a $200 million annual subsidy, pays 72? of every dollar in most seamen's wages. Because some of the largest U.S. ship lines are among the strikebound (U.S. Lines, Moore-McCormack, Grace, Farrell), Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz at first took personal charge at bargaining sessions; he was so frustrated by the gap between the two sides that he was reduced to table pounding...
...hardest tasks seems to be straightening out the confusion about Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Standard Corp. They are completely separate companies, making different products, although the same Rockwell family is connected with both. We were, shall we say, discouraged on reading in TIME [May 28 that "Willard [Rockwell] Jr., 51, was named president and chief executive ol Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. last month." The fact is that Willard F. Rockwell Jr. was president of Rockwell Manufacturing Co. for 17 years-from 1947 to 1964. In 1963, he was named president of Rockwell-Standard Corp., a post that...
...policy in Viet Nam. At West Point, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, declared that the global mess was "not hopeless," while at Long Island University, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall sounded pretty hopeless about the urban mess. At the University of Iowa, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz remarked that "commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...want us to go to Los Angeles and screen scum," charged Jack Tabata, who last month plowed under twelve acres of his Orange County strawberry field in a well-publicized protest against the Government's refusal to lower the bars to braceros. Tabata also sent Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz a tray of bruised berries, picked, he said, by a worker supplied by the Labor Department...