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Jane Harper Aurora, Colo...
...filed grievances on every little thing and management retaliated, and there was harassment on both sides." Now, he says, "we can move three times the traffic because we're all working together." The most stress, he adds, is crossing the picket lines. Bill Kolacek, a supervisor at the Aurora center near Chicago, compares running the picket line to his Army experience in Viet Nam. Driving up to the facility, he says, "I put my foot on the clutch, my left leg starts shaking, and my back tenses up." He feels sorry for the older strikers who were near retirement...
...strike as a reason to surrender with honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest. I think he blew it." Sandi Engel, a controller at Illinois' busy Aurora center, is married to a union welder who opposes the strike. Says she: "Every morning he tells me, 'What you're doing is illegal. You're going to jail...
...towns and cities, indeed even individual plants, factories and small groups of homes, could sink gas wells and become largely self-sufficient for many of their energy needs. In some places, that is already happening. On the campus of Wells College, in the upstate New York farm town of Aurora, a single gas well is expected to produce 200,000 cu. ft. of gas per day, saving the institution about $34,000 yearly in energy costs...
...Shaw East Aurora...