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...principle of equal pay for equal work was troublesome on several counts. First, it required centralized wage negotiations which meant that the average worker had little opportunity or cause for involvement in union affairs. Secondly, it required that higher paid L.O. members (usually working in the more profitable industries) refrain from taking out as much as they otherwise could in the interest of solidarity with their poorer union comrades. This requirement gave managers and stockholders higher profits with higher salaries and more dividends in direct contradiction to the goal of equality. Finally, since L.O.'s membership is mainly blue collar...
...Western Reserve University, has made a comprehensive study of marriage contracts. He has compiled more than 1,500 such documents. Typically, the contracts shuttle between large and petty issues. Some provisions in one: "Ralph agrees not to pick, nag or comment about Wanda's skin blemishes," "Wanda will refrain from yelling about undone chores until Sunday afternoon," and both parties agree to avoid using the words "married to, married, husband, wife . . . and other derogatory terms." More seriously, the couple agreed to allow extramarital affairs, keep separate bank accounts, and not have children-at least until the five-year contract...
...wearing pageboys, and I had frizzy hair." She changed her name from Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill Broonzy and Bob Dylan thrown in, Snow's personal sound track was varied...
...farmers eager to make more big sales, the Soviets in effect will be rationed to a portion of their wants-how large a portion, the Ford Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely to come until after the bulk of the U.S. harvest is reaped and counted...
...well as a professional musician since that time, I have talked to Mr. Straus, since reading his article, and he tells me that he does not feel it necessary to retract the statement that "I deeply resent Mr. Kirchner" because he has a right to his impression. I will refrain from giving my "impression" of Mr. Straus's intelligence and reparative ability on the grounds that it might be libelous...