Business: Personal File: Jul. 21, 1961

∙ While United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26¢hourly wage boost, guaranteed annual salaries for skilled workers, increased unemployment...

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