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...down a second major industry. With contracts covering 82% of U.S. aluminum-producing capacity about to expire, the top U.S. aluminum makers-Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser-turned down labor's demands for the same wage package that the union failed to get from steel management. Barring a last-minute truce, the United Steelworkers (32,000 aluminum members) and two other unions (28,000 members) were ready to walk out. A stoppage in aluminum would slow planemakers, missilemakers, other defense contractors; customers have an estimated 30-to-60-day supply on hand...
...from the nation's steel mills last week marched 30,000 wildcat strikers, defying the two-week truce in steel framed by President Eisenhower. Thus did the rank and file put pressure on management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...
When the stormy week ended, Frondizi had the backing of big business, the neutrality of a large section of the military, a truce with most of his political opponents. For the first time in weeks, he pulled a beret on his head and took a half-hour stroll on downtown streets. "It may be merely another trick," moaned a coup-bent general-from his hiding place...
...squeeze which France has put on Algeria, the solution to the student problem rests upon the result of the Algerian war. To M. Aitchalal's mind, there are only two possibilities. The total extermination of the Algerian people, of whom 500,000 mainly civilians, have already been killed, or truce and negotiations, based on France's public recognition of the independence and equality of Algeria...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...