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...Grey Area. The reason for the widening schism between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. is as old as the picket line: jurisdictional disputes. Faced with a decline in membership (from 15 million in 1958 to about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently...
...limited arbitration as the best way to end intra-union battles, asked for (and got) more time to work out the right formula. But some union leaders suspect that the problem will get worse before it gets better. Moans Plumbers and Pipefitters Union President Peter Schoemann: "The 'grey area' and [the jurisdictional] 'scrambled egg' area used to be just a one-egg omelet; now it's getting...
...condition was quickly fulfilled. Calling the foreign press corps to his home, Premier Joseph Ileo produced the grinning prisoner in a striped charcoal-grey suit and green polka-dot tie. Tshombe promptly took the floor. After two months under guard, he seemed a changed man. Gone was his anger at his captors; gone, too, was all the talk of Katanga as a separate nation. "Katanga has always wanted to collaborate with the rest of its brethren in the Congo," he said, as if he had always felt that way. "Katanga is an industrial province. It needs customers. Building customs barriers...
...ever so much nicer than staying home with the telly," cooed a middle-aged mum with crimped grey hair to her friend in flowered silk. Under the fringed pink lights of a big London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like...
...including 30 Negro couples. Also gracing the town's first mixed social event in memory: a hand-sewn Sierra Leone flag quickly Rossed together by the mayor's wife-an appropriate gesture in an area just 25 miles from Frederick, Md., where Stonewall Jackson spared the old grey head of Flag Waver Barbara Frietchie...