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Although this particular cross-country trip is fictional, the inconveniences experienced by the passengers and crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in the solar system, the control of air traffic closer to home is still crude and imprecise in comparison. As a result, runways are overcrowded on the ground, air lanes are jammed aloft. Particularly near airports, spacing between aircraft is often so hard to control that near-misses are dangerously familiar...
When the Pay Board in March cut back the wage increase that West Coast dock workers had won, four of the five labor members stomped off the board, and the dockers threatened to strike. Last week the board took on the East and Gulf Coast longshoremen. It ordered slashes, reducing the first-year increase from 70? to 55?. Labor chiefs were quiet, and there was little strike talk among the rank and file. Said Anthony Piccavillo, a checker on Manhattan's East River: "We should have gotten the full raise, but I wouldn't want to strike...
...Dock workers say that they have had their fill of picket lines. Harry Bridges' West Coast longshoremen were out for 134 days before signing their contract; Thomas Gleason's East Coast and Gulf dockers were idle for eight weeks. Though no group won all it wanted, the approved wage raises averaged 12%, far more than the 5.5% that the Pay Board normally allows. The board permitted the outsized gain partly to avoid a strike, and partly because the dockers pledged to raise productivity by changing work rules...
...annual meeting, Six said that a profitable first quarter seems to promise 1972 earnings better than 1971's figure of $8.4 million. Some of the gain will surely come from his expanding jet cargo business, up last year by 57% (in part because of the West Coast dock strike). To handle the new volume, Continental has placed $202 million in orders for four McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airbuses and 15 stretched Boeing 727s...
...past two years, contracts covering about 4.75 million workers came up for renewal. This year the number is 2.8 million, and negotiations are in such noncritical areas as apparel, retail trade and transportation equipment. The major imponderable now is the reaction of Harry Bridges' West Coast dock workers, who have yet to approve or reject the Pay Board settlement. If they thumb it down, a real crisis could follow, and the Administration would have to go to Congress for new strike-restraining legislation to keep the wharves open...