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...looks boyish: no grey threads his reddish hair, no bags encase his eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...galloping inflation that has sent living costs soaring since war's end finally seems hobbled. Prices have held steady despite a wage hike of nearly 6% in the past year. The long-queasy franc has strengthened, and the black-market rate of 368 to the dollar is closer to the official rate of 350 than it has been for years...
...postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase). The session backfired: Republican Congressmen, angry at their leaders and aware of the powerful postal workers' lobby, joined with Democrats to vote 328 to 66 in favor of the 8.8% hike. Later, the Senate passed the bill...
...Hike to P.B.H...
...specific strike issues are now obscured. What started as a walkout over ordinary union demands-for a 20? hourly wage hike, a union shop, seniority rights, arbitration of grievances-has turned into an old-fashioned finish fight between the nation's No. 2 union and its No. 2 plumbing-fixtures manufacturer. The union vowed war "until doomsday." Said Kohler: "No outsider can determine our operation...