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...fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...
...Holding Out." The issues-and causes-were as complex as the fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...boost in tuition charges in private colleges to meet the full cost of education would be "ill-considered," Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, declared in his 1958 annual report...
Payrolls were growing fatter because basic industries continued to pick up: boost output to 141,072 cars, 20% above the week before and 13% higher than any week in 1958.
...fight was over the I.A.M.'s demand for a new contract containing a fat pay boost. T.W.A. mechanics originally demanded a 49?-per-hour pay hike on a one-year contract, plus changes in T.W.A.'s seniority and supervisory rules. A month ago T.W.A. countered with an offer of 40? per hour over a three-year period, later boosted it to 41? per hour, the level at which the I.A.M. recently settled with Northwest Airlines. But it was not enough for the mechanics. Snapped T.W.A. President Charles Thomas: "The company withdraws the offers it has made...