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...Alien Provisions. Whether the E.T.U.'s capitulation proves to be a lasting victory for Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath depends on whether or not the Court of Inquiry rules in favor of the Electricity Council, which had offered the workers only $4.80 more a week. Nonetheless, Heath's success in preserving his hard line has for the moment given pause to imminent inflationary wage claims by other nationalized public workers, including employees of Britain's railway, post office and waterworks. It has also increased his personal popularity. A Gallup poll taken during the E.T.U. slowdown indicated that...
...longer able to act, Harry and Jack observe and remember. They watch the people who walk by their table, discuss them, recall others like them. Although their recollections are often funny, Jack and Harry cannot laugh; they can only smile. And cry. Even their pasts seem alien, and time, all they have left, is an enemy. "You wonder how there was ever time for it all," Harry muses. "Time?" Jack replies. "Don't mention it." Each day is the same. They go to breakfast, and then to lunch, and then they take tea, and then they leave for dinner...
...time the Stoners, and similar ghetto troops in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, would have been alien to I the Boy Scouts' essentially white, midI die-class orientation. Today they epitomize the Boy Scouts of America's search for "relevance." Foremost on Scouting's list of reorganized priorities is reaching the ghetto youth, who traditionally rejected Scouting because it seemed just another white do-gooder organization or had little relation to his city existence...
...influenced by what Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, calls "the second life that everyone leads through TV." The worker and his wife constantly see advertised on television the products that he makes, but they often find it hard to buy them. TV programs also portray an alien world. "In the land of the media, whether it is movies, magazines or TV," complains Floyd Smith, president of the International Association of Machinists, "Daddy always goes to the office, not to the factory." And he brings home plenty of money without appearing to sweat hard...
Fanning the black Bahamians' longstanding sense of grievance over discrimination, Pindling charged that Freeport was "an alien anomaly that must either bend or break." It needed a "social conscience" and "a soul." To instill them, the government acquired an interest in the Port Authority and tightened gambling tax surveillance. Last year Pindling gained major new leverage: control of immigration and the issuing of work permits in Freeport...