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...typical of contract negotiations that go on in hundreds of plants and offices across the U.S. every year. Except for one thing: this labor showdown happened to take place at the citadel of organized labor in the U.S., AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, where the management is none other than George Meany-Mr. Union himself...
Actor Lee Marvin, 52, shoots up the Wild West in style, but he lost his first showdown with the California Supreme Court. Marvin's legal troubles began when his ex-roommate filed suit against him. Her claim: the two made an oral agreement to share all property accumulated during the time they lived together (1964-70). Michelle Triola Marvin, as she calls herself, demanded that the actor ante up a solid million-including shares in film rights, a home in Malibu, and an island in the South Pacific. Though Marvin denied that such an agreement was ever made...
Eager for a showdown at the anthropology convention, opponents of sociobiology tried to push through a ham-handed resolution condemning the new science as "an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society." The resolution also deplored sociobiology's pernicious influences on the young, through its use in school texts...
Intense Contest. The Senate showdown will come on Jan. 4, the day the 95th Congress convenes. The Democrats will select a successor to the retiring majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, and the Republicans a new minority leader to replace retiring Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania...
...From the beginning, however, the Suárez government has moved cautiously, in order to avoid alienating the powerful right-wingers who are still entrenched in the government and armed forces. The King relied heavily on Suárez, who prepared the delicate maneuvering that led to the Cortes showdown...