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...Signed into law 121 bills passed by Congress, among them the $887 million aid-to-education program, a $42 million excise tax cut, the debt limit hike to $288 billion, a 1½-year extension to the farm surplus program that has already disposed of $4 billion worth of crops...
...students did not even have a grievance. The trouble all started fortnight ago when the municipal government announced a ½? bus-fare increase to help pay for bus drivers' wage increases and for 1,400 new buses. University students were specifically exempted from the fare hike, but that was immaterial. Proclaiming themselves as "defenders of the working class," they seized half a dozen buses and proceeded to the Zócalo, Mexico City's central square, currently being repaved. There the students demonstrated their proletarian solidarity: they played dodge-'em, bump-'em, hot-rodding the buses...
...road and still bordered by unspoiled forest land. Yet, in the entire country, this is the biggest such stretch we have left." The speaker: William O. Douglas, 59, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration against local outcries for a tourist-drawing coastal highway. "Can we afford to lose the last such place where a person can get away from it all and savor what...
...year, now wants no more long-term pacts. Union Carbide also signed its first long-term contracts in 1955-for three years-and once was enough. Labor costs have jumped most in precisely the areas where profits declined most. Last April, Union Carbide's contracts compelled it to hike wages 14? an hour in plants where 40% to 50% of the workers were laid off. In the future, Carbide will aim for one-year wage pacts. As for cost-of-living escalator clauses, says Union Carbide Industrial Relations Vice President Carl Hageman, "we'll take a strike anywhere...
...contracts boosted the steel industry's labor bill by 26? an hour last month; steel prices advanced soon after by $4.50 per ton at a time when many experts argued strongly for price cuts to stimulate the nation's economic recovery. Money-losing railroads were obliged to hike hourly wages by 12? last November, pile on 4? more in April, now are slated for a third 7? jump this November. Meanwhile, they fall deeper into the red, though both passenger and freight rates are going...