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...foreman had threatened to get Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker, "to shoot at everyone wearing a white shirt...
...Fatal Estimate. Actually, a great deal had changed, especially at Boeing. Having dismantled the SST operation over the previous seven weeks, Boeing Board Chairman William M. Allen estimated the day after the House vote that it would now cost between $500 million and $1 billion in fresh Government financing to get the project going again. Said Allen: "In this business you just don't turn it on and off like a spigot...
Allen's estimate may be a fatal blow to the new hopes for the SST. Supporters of the plane have argued that the price of going on would actually be less than the cost of terminating the project...
...Norodom Sihanouk was revered as a "god-king" by what he called his "7,000,000 little Buddhas." Now it seems as if the same role has fallen, unbidden, upon ascetic Premier Lon Nol. Soon after he resigned last month, still semi-paralyzed in the wake of a near-fatal stroke, it became obvious that no one could even come close to forming an acceptable government without his mystically legitimizing presence. So last week, Cambodia resolved its 18-day government crisis by keeping Lon Nol on as a purely symbolic premier...
...president, the ambitious anticampus county prosecutor. He demonstrates fondness for the students who died and also revulsion at the window-smashing and arson tactics of the student rioters. Michener puts some controversies into perspective. There were off-campus agitators inflaming the crowd, and most students were unaware that the fatal Monday rally had been declared illegal...