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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THURSDAY: The Miracle Worker. (1962) Patty Duke was the youngest actress ever to win an Oscar when at sixteen she played Helen Keller in this adaptation of William Gibson's play. CH. 56. 9 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Intruder in the Dust (1949) One of the better screen adaptations of Faulkner focuses on a young white's encounter with an old black Mississippian falsely accused of murder...
Unions representing employees of some retail chains, including locals at E.J. Korvette and Grand Union, have won contract provisions severely limiting lie-detector tests. A few stores, like New York's Bonwit Teller, have abandoned tests on sales personnel because of worker opposition. And many executives, whether out of consideration for good employee relations or philosophical conviction, will have nothing to do with the machine...
After a year of investigation, a top-level executive committee is now offering a combination of technology and tradition to close the gap. Mitsubishi's giant IBM System/370 Model 165 computer has been put to work making matches. For 8,000 yen (about $30) a Mitsubishi worker can get the names of as many as ten employees of the opposite sex best matched to his or her own talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend...
...unlimited cost-of-living escalator clause; but the growing sense of futility attached to assembly-line work-psychologically at least, the real issue of the strike-was barely confronted. The settlement mostly dealt with added pay, a little more vacation, and slightly earlier retirement. Only a year later, worker discontent exploded again at Chevrolet's highly mechanized Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
...cheered a settlement that, by Woodcock's admission, could have been won before the contract deadline, which meant that the strike itself was little more than a blue-collar catharsis. Be cause of the cost of the walkout and loss of overtime during the recession, relatively few eligible workers took ad vantage of the "30 and out" early-retirement program that was supposedly their major gain. Employee absenteeism soon returned to its normal 5%, and employee morale does not seem much different from that expressed by the worker who explained his frequent sacrifice...