Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wise arbitration panel, mindful of the public interest, might say: Let management drop its bungled demand for authority to change work practices; let the union accept management's demand for a noninflationary wage settlement keyed to productivity. But past performances of federal mediation boards suggest that the panel may split the difference between the industry's 2.7%-a-year package and McDonald's demands, which the industry estimates at 5% a year. Such an outcome would stir a new ripple of price increases. Predicted a high steel executive last week: "If a third party writes the settlement...
...echoes in almost every village, where unrelenting antagonism exists between priest and public schoolmaster, who is usually a Socialist or a Communist. At first the leftist anticlerical wing in the Cabinet seemed to be having its way (TIME, Dec. 28), and would put over its proposal that churches must accept state supervision if they took the $60 million. But at the last moment, Premier Michel Debré, under pressure from the Catholic church and Catholic legislators, removed the strings. In high indignation, Education Minister Andrè Boulloche resigned. After 13 straight hours of debate, the heavily Catholic Assembly voted...
When CBS announced that giveaway shows could no longer accept free goods in exchange for plugs on the air (TIME, Dec. 14), merchandise marts such as Art Linkletter's House Party seemed to be headed for the boneyard. Last week CBS gave them new life, promised to reimburse the giveaway shows for the cost of the hardware that was formerly provided by schlock-hungry companies. The bill will not be cheap: House Party and two other Linkletter shows alone will cost the network about $3,000 a week...
...Milwaukee, Florenz Ziegfeld's "Golden Girl" was packing them in once more; she even announced that she was getting gifts from anonymous gentlemen admirers. But now Gilda was somewhat more skeptical than she had been in the old high times. "I didn't know whether to accept the gifts or not," she said. "When I was married and my husband gave me a $7,000 bracelet, I always got the bill next month. It made me very cagey...
...York Times in its memo solemnly advised its staff against keeping "gifts of substantial value," a qualification so vague that when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only answer with a grin, "No yachts." The Minneapolis Star and Tribune restated existing policy: "Never accept more than a modest amount of anything one can eat, or drink, or that wilts." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reminded staffers of the paper's longstanding objection to acceptance of gifts-particularly anything worth more than...