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...competing for poor jobs. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union was forged out of a Jewish socialist tradition among the workers. Throughout its 73-year history, the I.L.G. has concentrated on establishing a 'protocol' for arbitration of future management-labor disputes, turning to strikes only as a last resort...
...motions of finding out last week by staging a kind of mini-Olympics called "The Superstars." Ten top professional athletes were invited to compete in any seven of ten events, excluding their specialty. In return each competitor received an $8,500 chunk of real estate in a new Florida resort community called Rotonda West and a chance at $122,000 in prize money...
Vietnamese consider law as only a last resort, and "a marriage ceremony is more important to consecrate the marriage than a license," she added...
...HARD-HEARTEDNESS of the characters increasingly manifests itself, strange scenes unfold. Lenny is now so possessed by his ambition to capture Kelly that he'll ruthlessly resort to the most outrageous sycophancy. At the Corcoran dinner table, for instance, he comments on the meal in tones reminiscent of Nixon courting the farm vote: "Now this is honest food... There's no lying in that beef... no insincerity in those potatoes ... no deceit in that cauliflower...
...Collier's themes is Beating the Game. In his Season of Mists, a rotter named Bert goes girl hunting at a seaside resort. His manner is sleazy, his person shopworn, and in August, as he knows, he would not have stood much chance. But it is November, the bitter end of the season, and the girls still to be found will settle for less, which is to say for Bert. He worms his way to the good side of a gorgeous and lonely barmaid named Bella, only to find that she has an identical twin named Nellie...