Word: mcdonaldization
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Died. Marie McDonald, 42, Hollywood performer and former Tommy Dorsey vocalist built up by press agents as "The Body," who made it big in the tabloids with endless escapades-six marriages, escape from an Australian psychiatric clinic, a suspicious kidnaping; from as yet undetermined causes; in Hidden Hills, Calif...
...procedure is clearly the end for as many as ten council hangers-on, including David McDonald, the former boss of the steelworkers, and James Carey, former chief of the electrical workers - both of whom have stayed on the council despite defeats in union elections. Facing up to his prospects, former Drama Student McDonald spoke for many of labor's aging leaders: "Act III, Scene 3. Curtain...
...leadership. Thanks in part to more democratic procedures, six major national union heads have been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally caught up with him, and the Steelworkers' David J. McDonald, 62, whose image in the locals was that of the soft-living "labor statesman" negotiating at the 19th hole in management's country clubs. Their successors, Paul Jennings, 47; and I. W. Abel, 57, are men of ability, but not likely to furnish imaginative new leadership...
...almost exclusively in guaranteed vacations and pensions. Black Eyes for All. Abel was not anxious to strike. His men have barely recouped income losses suffered during the record 116-day walkout in 1959, and the union is still racked by internal dissension as a result of longtime President David McDonald's disputed election defeat by Abel last February. Nonetheless, Abel was anxious to make his first contract...
...floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school in Seattle 15 miles away. Cost to his dad, the owner of two manufacturing firms: $16 a day, round trip. When Winthrop Rockefeller or ex-Labor Tycoon David McDonald travels from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, he makes the trip by air taxi in 30 minutes (v. two hours by auto) at a cost...