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Some of the U.S. firms that have been doing research longest realize the importance of basic research, give their scientists considerable free rein to explore new fields. The Martin Co.'s Research Institute for Advanced Studies, on an old estate in Baltimore, allows some 100 scientists to roam about freely on the frontiers of advanced mathematics, solid-state physics and gravity...
...Brooklyn Bridge, the "truly miracle bridge" under which he played as a boy, inspired Steinman, a Russian-Polish immigrant's son, to the career whose works include New York City's Henry Hudson, Canada's Thousand Islands, and Michigan's five-mile Mackinac Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world...
...National Labor Relations Board handed down a historic ruling last week in the longest-and one of the bitterest-major strikes in U.S. labor history. It found Wisconsin's Kohler Co., the nation's third biggest maker of plumbing fixtures, guilty of prolonging a six-year strike against the company by the United Auto Workers. The NLRB found Kohler guilty of unfair labor practices, ordered it to rehire the 1,700 workers discharged after the United Auto Workers called them out on strike-even if it means firing some of the 2,500 nonunion workers that Kohler recruited...
MYSTERY: The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie's first play on Broadway since Witness for the Prosecution, perpetrates its murder in a snowbound manor. Still on stage in London after neany eight years of continuous performances, it is the longest running play in the history of the English theater...
...three. American Airlines, which had more than a 50% decline in first-half profits, has decided to re-use plastic dishes from its food trays instead of discarding them. Minute Maid Corp. tallies the length of all long-distance phone calls, gives a "Joe Blow" award to the longest-winded employee. Savings per year...