Leaning across a broad burled walnut table in Detroit's cavernous General Motors Building last week, a pair of short, stocky men shook hands like anxious boxers in response to shouted directions from a battery of photographers. With this ritual over, talks began between United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and G.M. Vice President Louis Seaton.
They are 1961's most fateful labor negotiations. On them, and the negotiations at Ford and Chrysler that began later in the week, will depend in large part whether the nation will be able to stave off an...
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