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...employees who belong to the United Auto Workers. U.A.W. negotiators two weeks ago agreed to a new contract that gives Chrysler workers some $2 per hour less in wages and benefits than are received by employees at either General Motors or Ford. Ratification voting by the union's rank and file is expected to be completed this week, and industry analysts rate the outcome a tossup...
...been decades since anyone rose through the ranks of the English Department as swiftly as James T. Engell '73. In 1978, the year he received his Ph. D. from Harvard. he joined the department's faculty as an assistant professor. After only two years, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor. And next July, department members said this week. Engell will take up a tenured post in the department...
...Dive and Able Baker Charlie, play-pass, hide the QB, flee-flicker type stuff--which only a small circle of friends known as the Harvard football team can turn into ordinary English. I will never tell the secret. They may torture me, but they will only get name, rank group and bursar's card number...
...brought him into conflict with the Reagan Administration as a more fundamental dispute with Washington emerged over differing approaches to the Soviet Union. A burgeoning pacifist and environmental movement, strongly supported by West German youth, found Schmidt a tempting political target, draining support from his own Social Democratic rank and file. But finally, basic differences over how to reverse the nation's declining economic fortunes led to his break with the Free Democrats-and virtually guaranteed Schmidt's political demise...
Another possible snag: the A.L.C. requires that any merger be ratified by two-thirds of its 4,900 U.S. congregations. But A.L.C. Presiding Bishop David Preus, until recently a foot dragger on union, predicts a happy ending. Says he: "It is apparent that the rank and file in our church wish to go ahead with dispatch." Remaining outside the process is the conservative, 2.6 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...