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...annual movable salons in which men and women could come and go, talking of interrobangs and Michelangelo. But last week, when 9,000 scholars gathered in Chicago for the 92nd convention of the Modern Language Association, the proceedings at times took on the character of a longshoremen's dock shape-up. With so few jobs now opening up in colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors who make up the M.L.A...
...younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this winter will merely ride through the Miami area en route from mainland airport to cruise-ship dock. A helter-skelter condominium boom that began in Miami Beach in the early '60s siphoned off tourists who had been paying $60 a day in the better hotels for the winter season. The result, as Hal Cohen, executive director of the Beach's Tourist Development Authority, explains, is that...
...Dock stoppage annoys but doesn 't paralyze...
...What dock strike? Now in its second month and with a good possibility of ending this week, the walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks-an annoying shortage here, a raised price there. Unlike stoppages in major industries such as coal and steel, which threaten the nation's ability to produce, the dock strike has only slowed or stopped deliveries of hundreds of less-than-vital imported items-Danish hams, French wines, foreign cars...
...strike wreaks some degree of havoc, and the dock stoppage is no exception. In Chicago, some of the display props for Carson Pirie Scott's two-week promotion of Italian wares never arrived. Gabriel Industries cannot get battery-powered motors for its Erector Sets; Ideal Toy, based in New York City, has laid off some 200 of its 2,500 workers...