Word: pipe
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Green, no one figured that Claiborne deBorda Pell, 41, had much of a chance. No one, that is, except Newcomer Claiborne Pell. So while the statehouse pros snickered, and while his opponents-former Governor Dennis Roberts and former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath-sniped at each other, pipe-smoking Princetonian Pell put together an energetic campaign. Last week, in a state that is 58% Roman Catholic, Episcopalian Pell carried the primary with a walloping 83,000 votes to Roberts' 45,000 and McGrath...
...began to jeer. The jeers grew in Round 4. as Cage and Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting the piano's innards with knives and pieces of tin. After Round 6, in which Cage slammed the piano top with an iron pipe and dropped bottles on the floor, an elderly music lover strode to the stage, walloped Cage's piano with his walking stick and stalked out shouting "Now I'm a musician...
...that can cause eventual heart failure, is now the third biggest killer (behind heart disease and cancer) of men over 45, and British doctors attribute its rapid rise to polluted air. Recent samplings of London smog have revealed dangerous concentrations (300 to 400 parts per million at auto exhaust-pipe level) of poisonous carbon monoxide in the city's air. Normal danger level: 100 parts per million, inhaled over an eight-hour period...
...major points of dispute, the T.W.U. and the System Federation union, which also struck, demanded that the Pennsy 1) stop farming out its equipment for repair, 2) define all jobs in specific terms, and 3) take the pipe work away from the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way members and give it to members of the System Federation. The Pennsy agreed to define jobs, let its own shops repair the equipment if the cost is not appreciably higher. The jurisdictional dispute over the pipe work will be settled by an A.F.L.C.I.O. arbitration committee...
...basic dispute is the unions' demand to have exclusive rights to maintain and repair most of Pennsylvania's equipment, drastically limiting Pennsy's practice of farming out equipment for repair, and to take over the pipe work now done by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way members. Pennsylvania's President Allen J. Greenough refused to allow this, contends that this is a union jurisdictional dispute that does not concern the management. The unions also want a clause that would rigidly define each job and assure union members that they would not be called upon to work...