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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at the Ford Hall Forum in Jordan Hall, Dr. Farnsworth said that illegal, non-medical drugs contract minds rather than expanding them. "The heavy drug user often has a closed mind toward other, non-drug experiences," he said. "He denies other people's perceptions and withdraws from the values of the non-drug...
Locked out last August by Met General Manager Rudolf Bing-because the Met did not want to begin rehearsals until contracts had been signed with the unions (TIME, Sept. 26)-the artists had proved angrier and more obdurate than anyone had thought possible. After the Met's lawyer temporarily blocked their unemployment compensation with a legal technicality, they refused Ring's first (and not notably generous) pay offer. As, little by little, he went up, they began holding out not merely for a better contract, but also for back pay to cover the rapidly mounting number of lost...
Salvaged Season. The proposed three-year contract calls for increasing salaries to an annual $19,500 minimum for orchestra musicians, $13,400 for chorus and $11,180 for ballet dancers. The package would eventually cost the Met $3,000,000 a year. It would also make the orchestra and chorus the highest-paid in America-though they work longer hours than any comparable group...
...cited impending changes in the meal contract system as a major influence in the unprecedented decision to offer rebates on meals. "We are near enough to a departure from the strict restrictions we have had in the past that it would have been unduly bureaucratic to deny this request on the grounds of a lack of precedent" he said. May brought the proposal before the Committee on Houses, which approved it last Friday...
...years ago, however, Harvard, like many other institutions, came under pressure to correct obvious discrimination in its hiring practices. As a result, the University hired more black workers in certain fields. Several workers were made "painter's helpers." receiving pay lower than that of painters. as dictated by union contract. The fact of the matter is, however, that these mer do exactly the same work as painters, but continue to be paid less money, essentially because they are black. Some of these "helpers" have been here as long as sixteen months, and only one has been promoted to painter status...