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Notoriously Lethargic. The strains show elsewhere. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. claims to have reversed a seven-year trend of dwindling membership, it has been notoriously lethargic in recruiting the unskilled. Last month, in New York State's Catskill Mountains resort area, ten A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes...
Britain probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
Boston School Committee Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt, who had his banquet last month in South Boston's Blinstrub's Village, is typical of most of the politicians who will have to resort to fund-raising dinners this year...
...thanks to long-distance telephone calls and jet airliners. In recent months, they have been sighted holding hands at Senator Robert Kennedy's Hickory Hill party for Diplomat Averell Harriman and walking arm in arm at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands. In Positano, a lovely cliffside Italian resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea, they displayed what one observer described as "certainly a fondness...
...early days, the Iroquois drank the health-giving waters of the Saratoga spa in Upper New York state. Today, the beneficial tonic is supplied in summer by the new Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the traditional race meeting. In the interim, the place was the nation's gaudiest resort, alive with scandals, gambling and frivolity. This book recaptures all of the" old magnificence...