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Immediate cause of the trouble was Spain's longest, biggest and costliest labor dispute since the Civil War. The fight began last month in the coal fields of the northern province of Asturias, where miners, alarmed at skyrocketing prices, struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from...
With that he was off for Israel, where he had signed up for the longest stop of the tour. With the naive wit of an Ambassador from Coldwater Canyon, he cheerfully explained his presence: "As a fairly rebellious citizen of another country, I have watched Israel's development with admiration. I have a lot of Jewish friends, and I grew up in a neighborhood of Negroes and Jews where the atmosphere was not so good...
HANOVER, N.H., May 9--Harvard's 12-game winning streak, longest in its history, finally ended today as Dartmouth defeated the Crimson...
...jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman-2,279 miles from New Orleans to a refueling stop in Gander, Nfld...
...lousy day, and a dull ball game, but the varsity baseball team still won its tenth straight game--its longest winning streak in 22 years--rolling over M.I.T., 15 to 2, yesterday...