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With a combined weight of 440 pounds, Canadian law student Don McDonald and Ireland and the Business School's Mike Corrigan are good prospects for an outstanding second row. Leading contenders for the other two forward positions are Stu Nickerson and Dmitri Marchessini...
...year is 1820. A boy (Donald McDonald) and his father (Burt Lancaster) set their feet on the long way west from Kentucky to Texas. First town they come to, Paw gets himself in trouble with the sheriff and lands in the local stockade, but a bondslave (Dianne Foster), who has mysteriously acquired a henna rinse, sets him free. In gratitude, plainly mixed with motives that make better box office, Burt buys up her indenture with his "Texas money" and takes her along to fry his taters...
...Other toppers on the U.S. labor movement's wage scale: the Railway Clerks' George Harrison, $60,000 a year; the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, $50,000; the Musicians' James Petrillo, $46,000; the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald, $40,000; A.F.L. President George Meany, $35,000; the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther (who gets no salary as president of the C.I.O...
Before the settlement, the U.S. lost about 800,000 ingot tons of steel because of the twelve-hour strike of the steelworkers. This week the men were back to work; their leader, silver-haired, mellifluent David J. McDonald, was almost satisfied that he was keeping up with the Reuthers (TIME, June 13 et seq.). Last year McDonald gave up quickly on his demand for a guaranteed annual wage. He could not raise that issue this year because the greatest part of his contract, except for wage clauses, runs until...
STEEL NEGOTIATIONS are entering the critical stage, but neither union nor management thinks there will be a strike when the contract expires this week. Though Steelworkers' Boss David McDonald has rejected the industry's offer of about a 10?-an-hour wage boost as an "insult," few tempers are ruffled, and the industry is expected to make a satisfactory offer...