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...demands were became clearer when federal mediators hurried I.L.A. and N.Y.S.A. representatives into further bargaining sessions. Agreement had already been reached on some sticking points (welfare benefits, dues checkoff), and others seemed negotiable (wages, work-gang size). The big obstacle: I.L.A.'s demand that the present system of "pattern" bargaining-i.e., each port negotiates separate agreements with the I.L.A., using the New York contract as a guide-be replaced by a master contract allowing the union to negotiate major issues on a coastwide basis. When the N.Y.S.A. turned down this point on the ground that it could only...
...Game. The Communist play of his speech had a significance of its own. Both the Hungarian radio and Polish press carried excerpts from it. Moscow did not, nor did the Bulgarian, Rumanian or Czechoslovak radios. The Italian Communist press featured it; the French Communist press attacked it. This unusual pattern was an indication of where the tough line was in control, and where...
...lung cancer tend to minimize the possible importance of air pollution as another cause. On the other hand, the air-pollution enthusiasts minimize the importance of smoking. Last week Dr. Wilhelm C. Hueper of the National Cancer Institute told public-health engineers meeting in Atlantic City that the pattern of the increase in lung cancer coincides not with the pattern of increased smoking, but more closely with the use of cancer-causing substances in industry and their appearance in engine-exhaust fumes. Conceding that much of his evidence was circumstantial, Dr. Hueper concluded that "the great majority of lung cancer...
...promise we have for sustained peace in our time: peace with any approximation of justice . . . Worthy of highest praise are [the U.S. Government's] efforts, rising above considerations of party and politics, to bring the problems before the tribunal of the nations . . . Our President, indeed, has set a pattern of vigorous leadership, and has emphasized many of the points which have been dwelt upon by Pope Pius...
...varsity, however, has been able to win only one contest this year, over Princeton, two weeks ago. The Crimson fell into its losing pattern once again last week against Brown, and seemed to have lost much of the spark which enabled Harvard to defeat the Tigers...