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...across-the-board price increase to take effect on Dec. 1. Behind the scenes, though, hard-pressed companies began seeking sales by offering discounts-urging automakers to sign orders for cold-rolled steel before the increase and take delivery afterward at current prices. Last week an open rift developed within the industry when Bethlehem Steel, the second largest producer, said it was deferring until Feb. 1 its increase on cold-rolled steel used in making auto bodies...
...Support for the convention was rallied by the San Diego Union-Administration Communications Director Herb Klein was once a Union editorial writer-but opposition was strong. Said one county official: "Everybody in San Diego wants the convention except the people." President Nixon's favor has even caused a rift within the local G.O.P. A Republican county committeewoman threatened to seek a court injunction against the convention. Says Mrs. Virginia Taylor, one of 15 candidates for mayor: "Our priorities are all backward. It reminds me of the old Roman days. The people don't have enough to eat, they...
...reaction of Jewish faculty, student, and alumni at Harvard was, of course, one of utter horror. But he had not only alienated the Jewish community. Paradoxically, his actions in the Memorial Church Crisis caused a permanent rift between him and exactly the one constituency he needed to establish a viable control over the university-the old WASP families which hold the balance of power in the university...
Newton's second response came on March 5 - his birthday and Black Solldarity Day. Newton's speech - delivered to about 5000 Panther supporters gathered in Oakland - skirted the issue of the rift and ignored his earlier personal charges against Cleaver...
...team was reportedly suffering from internal dissension. Cooney Weiland is hardly a popular, inspirational coach, and there was some condescension and some bitterness to wards him, especially among the younger members of the team. Furthermore, there was apparently a rift between the seniors and the sophomores. Dan DiMichele and Doug Elliott fought more than once in practice, and Joe Cavanagh even exchanged a few punches with Elliott. Oddly enough, Cavanagh, a soft-spoken, personable captain, was some what resented, possibly for his close friendship with Cooney. His senior linemates, Cooch Owen and DiMichele, were resented for their failure to play...