Word: bosworth
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More important, COWPS Chairman Barry Bosworth and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss got on the phone to heads of other steel companies, urging them not to follow the U.S. Steel increase. Strauss, who is becoming increasingly influential in the Administration, made the key call to National Steel Chairman George Stinson. National then posted a price rise of only $5.50 a ton, which COWPS pronounced "acceptable." The smaller increase was quickly matched by several other companies, including Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 in the industry, without whose support U.S. Steel cannot make the bigger raise stick. For the record, U.S. Steel vowed...
...unworkable, and labor leaders argued that it placed unfair restraint on collective bargaining. Thomas G. Moore, a senior fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institute, dismisses both TIP plans as "gimmicks." Says he: "They are just a hidden form of wage and price controls, pure and simple." Barry Bosworth, President Carter's chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, complains that the Okun plan would require a whole new bureaucratic machinery and floods of forms: "It is too much control for the corner grocery store...
MONTGOMERY CLIFT by Patricia Bosworth Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 438 pages...
...fascinating story, and Patricia Bosworth, who received the cooperation of Clift's family, has turned it into compelling reading. The cooperation was necessary because Clift's problems, to a unique and peculiar degree, began long before he was born. His mother, whom everyone called Sunny, was an abandoned child who grew up in the family of a drunken steelworker in Germantown, Pa. Only when she was 18 did she learn from the doctor who delivered her that she was descended from two of the most illustrious families of America, the Blairs of Maryland and the Andersons of Virginia...
...longer up to challenges of any kind. Sometime during the early '50s, at the very moment of his triumph, he became addicted to drink and drugs. After a catastrophic Hollywood car crash in 1956, which left his face an awkward mask, his decline became a slide. Bosworth seems to pin much of the problem on guilt over his homosexuality - or bisexuality, as she maintains it was - but the evidence is totally unpersuasive. Good as her book is, it offers no real reason for Monty's down fall, which was as mysterious as his talent...