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...most was some evidence that the foreigner acknowledged their new status as a fully sovereign nation no longer an appendage of France. U.S. Ambassador Charles Yost made them an offer: the U.S. would evacuate the $500 million bases after seven years. The Moroccans countered with a request for a three-year phaseout. The expected compromise: U.S. operation of the bases for five more years...
Despite this dazzling show by Skypeck and his cohorts, the Crimson--and Ravenel in particular--was not horribly outclassed. In guiding the varsity to its first score, the little sophomore played with poise equal to that of the three-year veteran Skypeck. Directing an all-under-class backfield of two sophomores and two juniors, he efficiently called and executed a series of handoffs and keep plays to bring the Crimson to the Cornell 30-yard line...
...ever," United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther last week settled with Ford for far less. He got just about what Ford-and the other carmakers-offered back in April. Reuther joined with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas to announce "a sound and equitable agreement ... a three-year contract .. . fair to the workers, the company and the American public...
...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...
...inflexibility would have the effect of either ignoring the research problems which constantly beset the most well-intentioned thesis writer or discouraging students from undertaking ambitious projects which they feel might carry them beyond the three-year limit...