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...dusted off strike signs, prepared rosters of pickets, set aside emergency relief funds; in case there was an unexpectedly long walkout, the parent union could dip into a $20 million surplus. Steelmen halted deliveries of coal, limestone and iron ore as of this week, began clearing their yards of freight cars to avoid paying demurrage charges, sent orders out to start cooling off the giant open-hearth furnaces...
With a motley of piston-powered planes, from puddle-hopping Cessnas to long-range DC-6s, and a single French Caravelle jet, Air Viet Nam last year boosted its freight tonnage 50% and its passenger loads 30% (to 305,000) on flights throughout the country and to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore. Lately the company has expanded its modest fleet to 23 planes by chartering DC-3s from Taipei's China Air Lines and other planes from Air France (which has a 20.5% stake in Air Viet...
...price of 25? a copy ($50 a year) in the U.S., the paper is aimed primarily at the U.S. business community; most of its 4,000 subscribers are businessmen in the U.S. with interests in Latin America. Latin American subscription prices range from a forbidding $100 for air-freight delivery in Buenos Aires to $75 in Bogot...
...musical genius. At five he steals a violin and teaches himself to play. At seven he sneaks into the empty Hollywood Bowl, sits down at the Steinway, improvises in an ecstasy that lasts all night. At 13, carrying a couple of stolen instruments, he heads east on a slow freight. He lands in New Orleans, immerses himself in jazz, and suffers a creative convulsion that brings him to the edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic symphony, scores it for soprano, orchestra, tape, women's high-heeled...
...secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority and the loyal friend of then Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. The report accused Bobby of using "the influence of his public office to feather his own nest," said that on one occasion he had received $5,000 from the Ocean Freight-Forwarder Group for helping to get a bill through Congress. That "flagrant" abuse of his office, concluded the report, "justifies careful consideration looking to an indictment for violation of the conflict of interest statutes...