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...Later he went to work for 75? an hour at the Chrysler De Soto plant, but left the shop floor to become a union staffer in 1947 and, shortly thereafter, one of Walter Reuther's right-hand men. When Reuther died in 1970, Fraser competed closely with Leonard Woodcock for the presidency. Woodcock won a narrow majority in the U.A.W. vote board; Fraser withdrew and urged that the election be made unanimous. That gracious gesture perhaps ensured his own election to the $59,000 post in 1977, when Woodcock reached the mandatory retirement...
...Brien: "He is a better negotiator than Walter [Reuther] and clearly a better negotiator than Leonard [Woodcock]. If Doug says this is the way it is going to be, you can put that in the bank...
...their clear presentation of a difficult and controversial new theory, though, Woodcock and Davis deserve considerable credit. Their book is a fascinating introduction to the theory that may haunt science for a long time to come...
...compromise position may be possible if the cusp model is replaced by a "butterfly" catastrophe allowing the input of two additional control factors. Woodcock and Davis suggest that the absorption of the Atomic Energy Commission by the Energy Research and Development Agency may permit both lobbying groups to reconcile their demands...
...Woodcock and Davis do, however, give ample consideration to objections to the theory: that it is incapable of making useful predictions; that it is so general and qualitative as to reveal nothing we don't already know; that alternative mathematical models already exist; and that its proponents have based their claims of its wide applicability on a few phenomena well-suited to the model. Finally, two of the harshest critics have charged that in substituting pure theory for "the hard work of learning the facts about the world," idealistic mathematicians have used the theory "deduce the world by thought alone...