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...buying of some items, notably bread and toilet paper, and camp suppliers did a booming business in butane lamps and stoves. A Battersea candlestick maker turned out a million candles a day instead of his usual 250,000. His most popular item: a wax effigy of Prime Minister Edward Heath...
...five weeks, walked out after the government threatened disciplinary pay cuts for men engaged in 'the job action. The trainmen have said they will stage another one-day strike this week if the National Railways Board does not resume negotiations. To help cope with the crisis, Prime Minister Heath last week created a new Department of Energy with sweeping powers over offshore oil, coal, gas, electricity and nuclear energy. He named his closest adviser, Lord Carrington, the outgoing Secretary of Defense, to head...
...present state is not so much an energy crisis as a breakdown in industrial relations. The 270,000 coal miners have refused to work overtime until they get a settlement giving them basic increases of $18 to $22 on weekly wages ranging from $57 to $83; the Heath government has offered an increase of $5 to $6 a week. Anything more, said Heath, would exceed the 11% limit of his Phase III counter-inflation plan, plus cause other unions to demand similar boosts...
Richardson joins a list of past lecturers which includes psychologist Erik Erikson, foreign policy adviser McGeorge Bundy, former New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Edward Heath, Great Britain's prime minister...
Past lecturers include psychologist Erik Erikson, foreign policy adviser McGeorge Bundy, former New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Edward Heath, now Great Britain's prime minister...