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...white block letters on a funeral black background, a sign in the employment office of Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant carries a curt message: NO JOBS AVAILABLE, SALARY OR HOURLY. In the past 18 months, 12,000 Lockheed workers have been dismissed. Typical of them, Larry Cline, an $8,500-a-year assembler, was given only two days' notice that he was through. That was six months ago. For most of the time since then, he has measured out his days in a gray, boring round of job-hunting, shopping and cooking. His wife Linda has taken work...
...hour. The unions have had powerful, if often unnoticed allies in the industrial corporations that order new factories built, and will pay almost anything to get them finished on time. Such corporations urge contractors to pay heavy overtime, and if the projects are struck, says George Cline Smith, a Manhattan construction economist, the company often will tell its contractor: "Settle-we will pay the price...
...last night's masked horrors looked and behaved like a bunch of kids out for trick-and-treat. Patricia Smith's slattern recalled a hoarse and unhappy spinster. And like the other actors, Bacchus (Michael Cline) relied on pronouncing lines in a pseudo-theatrical voice...
Saroyan's version of boy meets girl seems sticky, but this production directed by Michael Cline could have given more insights into the characters as three-dimensional people. At least Saroyan makes the point that provincial Texas towns are best gotten out of before sundown...
...neighborhood tough during his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., Richards got religion when he started going with a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After high school, he attended a small church school in Virginia, where he was a star athlete, and where he met and married Mary Leah Cline (they have three teen-age children). He then transferred to the University of Illinois, where he showed equal proficiency in the vaulting pit and the classroom. Armed with a master's degree in philosophy, Richards competed in track meets, meanwhile delivering sermons around the U.S. and teaching...