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...when labor and management tend to reason rather than wrangle, the United Auto Workers' Local 833 and Wisconsin's Kohler Co. remained locked in a mastodontic duel for more years than most Americans care to remember. The longest major labor dispute in U.S. history, the Kohler strike began in April 1954, when workers at the plumbing-fixtures plant stormed out in a disagreement with the family-owned firm over a series of union demands for higher wages and fringe benefits. After a two-month closure, the factory resumed production with nonunion labor, touching off six years of intermittent...
Over from Ireland. During the first eleven months of 1965, 2,200,000 additional people have found employment (or have been sought out for it), the largest year-to-year increase since the Korean War buildup. Even so, the November work week was the longest (41.4 hours) in more than two decades, and average overtime (3.8 hours) came close to a record. Naturally, pay has risen with demand: workers in manufacturing earned $2.64 an hour in November v. $2.55 a year ago. Reports the National Industrial Conference Board...
...Longest & Heaviest. As they set off for a planned 14-day, 206-orbit flight-longer by six days and 86 revolutions than any previous mission-they could expect better news yet. If all goes well, by the time Borman and Lovell splash down on Dec. 18, they will have been in the air for as long as the longest estimated Apollo mission to the moon will take. They will have flown the heaviest (more than four tons) Gemini capsule yet, and undergone the most extensive in-flight medical tests. (Borman had two spots shaved on his head and depilatory rubbed...
...Outcry. Gus Hall, the party's top functionary, hailed the Supreme Court's decision as "a blow against the longest legal vendetta in American history." He said that the party would resume full-scale political activity, call a national convention, issue a manifesto for the first time since 1950, and run candidates for Congress next year. However, with hollow coffers and a membership estimated at less than 10,000, down from an alltime peak of 80,000 in 1944, the party is too feeble to make meaningful use of its reprieve...
...Smile. The longest week began on a sun-drenched Sunday morning in a small clearing, designated Landing Zone X Ray, in the Chu Pong foothills. Intelligence had long suspected the Chu Pong massif of harboring a large Communist base fed from the Cambodian side of the border. X Ray seemed a likely spot to find the enemy, and so it was. No sooner had the 1st Battalion of the Air Cav's 7th Regiment rushed from its choppers in the landing zone than the shooting began...