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...play a lot of poker with Congressman Nixon, and for a few minutes there was some of that youthful congeniality. They compared golf handicaps and chortled about the political effects of being seen together. Tip took Nixon on a fascinating tour of his Boston precincts, explaining that the dock workers knew a hell of a lot more about Nixon's trade legislation than the businessmen because the dock workers lived...
Thus the unusual labor peace of 1973 was suddenly, unexpectedly shattered. It was the first strike called against a major industry this year, and the first potentially serious walkout since the West Coast dock workers' strike of 1971-72. For as long as the work stoppage lasts, some 125,000 employees at 68 Chrysler facilities in the U.S. and Canada will be off the job. To be sure, the impact on the economy will hardly be comparable to that caused by the crippling 67-day shutdown of General Motors in 1970, when almost three times as many workers went...
...with illegal possession of firearms, murder, and plotting subversion with Maoist rebels, was not exaggerating; if convicted, he could have been sentenced to execution or life imprisonment. Despite having spent eleven months in prison since his arrest, Aquino looked trim and confident when he took his place in the dock of the courtroom, a converted army lecture hall in Manila's Fort Bonifacio. Instead of trying to answer the specific charges, however, he shrewdly grabbed every opportunity to denounce the proceeding itself as "an unconscionable mockery," clearly aiming his remarks at the 200 newsmen and spectators who jammed...
...Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock"-and if he knows what is good for him, the Melbourne mouse will run right down again, straight into his hole. Beset by a city-wide rise in food poisoning and mouse-nibbled documents in the Supreme Court, Melbourne health authorities have ordered all-out war on the city's mice. "Even pet mice must go," decreed Dr. Adrian Palmieri, the city's senior district health officer. "They breed like the rest and will mate with wild mice if they get the chance...
...accommodate five passengers instead of the usual three and ballasted with 1,000 lbs. of lead to compensate for the resulting shift in the center of gravity. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind, back-up Skylab crewmen, would pilot the craft to a rendezvous with Skylab and probably dock in an emergency port at the side of the space station (see chart). The three Skylab astronauts would then eject the disabled Apollo from the docking module to make room for the third crew, which NASA still optimistically hopes to send up in November...