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...soon as he arrived in the Motor City, Sullivan was greeted by his first big labor assignment: interviewing the late Walter Reuther. In Detroit, and later in our Houston and Washington bureaus, he reported on many major labor-management rifts, including a nationwide U.A.W. walkout against General Motors, three railroad strikes, a newspaper strike and last year's postal walkout...
...Daily News, "we should resist all efforts to make it everlasting, with a swelling horde of bureaucrats striving to enforce it." The Chicago Tribune judged the freeze "probably inevitable," but warned it was "neither a guaranteed nor a permanent solution." The Trib regretted "that the two unions [steel and railroad] that triggered the freeze should escape its effects...
...tosses in nightmare; waves swill against his mattress, accusing figures and monsters jostle in the water, and a gigantic buttoned glove flops like a squid against the bedroom wall. A skeleton lies across a railroad track, two bony ringers stuck between fleshless lips to whistle an approaching train to its accident. Cliffs become gloomy torsos, a lobster floats in air. The images seem like snippets from a surrealist collage by Max Ernst. In fact, they filled the graphic work of a 19th century German academician named Max Klinger...
...Secret and stumped the panel -with good reason. Johnson's secret: a 2,490-lb. ball of twine, the result of eight years' scrounging around his neighborhood. Today the ball weighs close to five tons, is 11 ft. high and is so unwieldy that a railroad jack must be used to wind on new string. Its bulk attests to Johnson's private war on discarded string...
...shiv could be seen bristling from the pocket of one 13-year-old. Passing rusting barrels and abandoned refrigerators, the kids picked up beer cans and trash, identified wildflowers common to abandoned lots: Queen Anne's lace, daisies, dandelions. Another group hiked down a little-used railroad spur, starting rock collections with fool's gold and coal. Many brought the younger brothers and sisters for whom they must baby-sit while their parents work. As they told friends about the camp, enrollment swelled by another 100 kids at week...