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...Five. The strike began on Oct. 17, when a deadlock at the bargaining table erupted into the streets and onto the picket lines. The union insisted on a one-year contract with a 15? hourly wage hike. To meet competition and provide for long-range planning, Westinghouse demanded a five-year contract, with yearly raises amounting to 23.5? an hour by 1961-terms similar to but not identical with those agreed upon by the union and General Electric. But there was a deeper issue. Westinghouse is trying to put through a companywide, time-study program aimed at increasing production efficiency...
...more overcrowding, more slowdowns and more complaints. The public was well pleased when McGinnis began a program of improving and enlarging the parking lots at suburban stations. Then he announced a monthly parking charge of $5.50 a car. While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair into a real Donnybrook with a speech in Norwalk. "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks," he roared, "people act as though I've torn up the tracks. There's going to be parking at every station...
...That is quite a stockpile; so Defense Secretary Wilson last week announced that conventional arms orders are being reduced in favor of emphasis on the wonder weapons of the future. To rush work on them, Wilson said he would ask Congress in January for an additional $1 billion-a hike in defense spending from $34.5 billion in the fiscal year 1956, ending June 30, to $35.5 billion in fiscal...
...increase in faculty salaries last year just covered by a $200 tuition hike indicates Yale's interest in increasing the quality in its faculty as well as its faculty-student ratio. In these moves, University policy makes a start at the removal of the second objection to Griswold's original plan, i.e., the make-up of the faculty...
...further hike is expected within the foreseeable future. The barbers' union has talked of charging $1.75 for crew cuts, but Anthony Ferranti, owner of the Harvard Barber Shop, said yesterday that "there is little or no chance of such a raise in Harvard Square...