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...International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid...
...opinion that regarded it as "Selznick's Folly." Sometimes his conferences would last 48 hours, nonstop. He went through four directors and scriptwriters like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. When the Screen Extras Guild produced only 1,500 bodies to represent the Confederate wounded at the Atlanta Railroad Station, Selznick violated union rules by ordering up 1,000 dummies to swell the crowd...
They were not apt to feel secure for long, however, since they were Mexicans who only 35 hours earlier had illegally crossed the border into the U.S. to take up life as mojados, or "wetbacks," as they call themselves. The men were passengers on a modern underground railroad, a burgeoning smuggling network that has immigration officials perplexed as to how to stop...
...loneliness (rather than alienation), alcohol (rather than drugs), and poverty (for which hard work and a sense of dignity rather than social awareness is the remedy). Singing about hobos and prisons, Haggard feels like a protest singer, a spokesman for the working man who has his pride or the railroad bum who has his dreams...
Perhaps. Galbraith is undoubtedly right in holding that the halfhearted, eleventh-hour attempts at socialism in the U.S., such as the federal rescue of the collapsing Penn Central railroad, produce worse results than unabashed governmental takeovers of some industries in other developed nations. And few will argue with the goal of somehow finding a way to provide the healthcare industry and other undernourished parts of U.S. society with advantages enjoyed by big corporations. Yet socialism, new or otherwise, is not an encouraging word to most Americans, and the achievements of "mixed" economies -part free, part socialized-in such advanced countries...