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County Prosecutor Joseph C. Woodcock, whose interest in the case had been stirred by the Michigan affair, was impressed by Farber's information, but realized that pressing charges against Dr. X would need more evidence than had been presented...
...current probe, Prosecutor Woodcock got court permission to exhume five of the bodies. Then he sent tissue samples off to different specialists, some of whom used detection techniques so subtle they can identify a substance weighing only a trillionth of a gram...
AUTOMOBILES. The 1.4 million members of the United Auto Workers have contracts that include an uncapped COLA, and have not been stung much by inflation. President Leonard Woodcock will push hardest on job security. The automakers will be asked to contribute more to the supplementary unemployment benefit funds from which laid-off workers receive payments. The U.A.W. will also demand that laid-off workers be rehired before overtime work is offered to employees on the job. The companies are talking tough, but rising sales should help them reach agreement with the union by the time the contracts...
Union leaders should also be considered because they, too, run large institutions and deal with conflicting constituencies, though like businessmen, or perhaps more so, they suffer from a reputation for narrowness of vision. Leonard Woodcock, 64, president of the United Auto Workers, has shown compassion, wit, a sensitivity to change in the economy, and a deep interest in foreign affairs. Lane Kirkland, 53, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is one of the ablest union administrators and an astute student of automation, race relations, social security and foreign intelligence operations...
...when Hoffa tells of playing with the grandchildren at his Lake Orion, Michigan, summer home, it reminds you of Don Corleone. For Hoffa, wealth and loyalty to family and union are living denials that he has never broken the respectable union boss's code of conduct. But while Leonard Woodcock may have a summer home just like Jimmy's, he is no rebel and will hardly meet the same...