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...members of the Mahavishnu Orchestra do not smoke, drink or eat meat, and this discipline is reflected in their music. The group does not have the carnivorous overtones of Grand Funk Railroad or Alice Cooper, the smoky sense of the Doors or the Dead, or the alchoholic tendencies of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. They are truly an organic band. Their jazz-oriented music is, according to McLaughlin, the only rock music today to which one can meditate...
...cynicism also applies to Phase II's wage guidelines. Last week the Pay Board continued knuckling under to strong unions by approving most of a contract that would provide some 180,000 railroad workers with wage and benefit increases of 42% over 42 months. The settlement once again makes a mockery of the official guideline of 5.5%, although not quite so badly as in some previous cases. The conductors, firemen and brakemen agreed to changes in a long list of make-work rules that will substantially increase productivity, thus fulfilling one of the few valid criteria for seeking...
...rare prosperity is no accident. It is one of the railroad;-Southern Railway and Southern Pacific are others-that have successfully begun to marry the computer to their operations. It uses the computer to help control and schedule its labor crew and its fleet of 120,000 freight cars, many of them running under such various names as the Nickel Plate and the Virginian (now merged into the N&W). Result: last year noncoal freight use was up 8%, and operating expenses were down fractionally despite a 10% increase in wages...
...with Chesapeake and Ohio to create a system strong enough to compete with what became Penn Central. The merger idea was put on the back burner when the Penn Central went broke. Fishwick has since turned his attention to making N&W the nation's No. 1 railroad for service...
...possibility of that. For a roommate she draws a grim little trollop named Biscuit Besqueth, who talks baby talk to the oaf she is trying to railroad to the altar. Down by the pool, pale Fortune's batty advances are repelled with casual, callous disdain by the glistening sun worshipers. The author has mastered all the sledgehammer nuances of brutalizing speech: the deadening obscenities, the tag lines from talk shows, the dreary threats and boasts...