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...Workers President Walter Reuther, aware of a growing resentment, tried to pass the blame to management-and had it tossed right back (see below). Indeed, there was justification for the idea that labor's basic appetites are inflationary. Said the New York Times this week: "There is a built-in 'political' need for the labor union leader to win a wage increase every year, if at all possible, and to win as good increases for his men as the labor leader in the next union...
...Built-in Cushion. Most other plane makers admitted to austerity, but they were not alarmed. Washington had tipped them months ago to the coming cutbacks, and they had slowly geared for them. To cushion the drop in F8U production, Chance Vought is counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch...
LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, by Wright Morris (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), carries built-in advertising. At one point, the protagonist rhapsodizes: "Old lecher with a love on every wind, and you young ones too, running in pimpled packs after the teen-age bitch with her perfumed heat, and you, too, pretty matron, under the hair dryer, this is your book...
...cope with. After her husband left for the 8:34, she put on Music for Washing and Ironing, and the suave purring of the Somerset Strings, boosted real high, drowned out the snarl of the washer. When it was time for a midday snack, she returned to the built-in record cabinet and selected Music for Gracious Living and Music for Expectant Mothers (her second child was on the way). Late in the afternoon it clouded over, and she barely had time to slip on Music for a Rainy Night before her husband came home...
...newsmen objected to Dulles' proposed limitation on the size of the group because it ignored "technological" changes since the war, i.e., the growth of TV reporting. Also, argued the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram's William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, "economic factors" provide a built-in limitation on the number of correspondents in China. Probable outcome: six-month visas for 20 to 35 newsmen...