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...worry on the home front, and that people are displeased with the way the President is handling the twin troubles of unemployment and inflation. Labor unionists, feeling particularly victimized by rising prices, are using their ultimate weapon to force fat wage increases. Last week half a million telephone and railroad workers marched out on strike. Last week, too, labor chiefs and leading Democrats sharply stepped up their offensive against Nixon's economic policies and spelled out more explicitly than ever their programs for change...
Rock shows are canceled in Hampton Beach, N.H., when youths try to break into a sold-out ballroom. Worried officials are vastly relieved when 55,000 enthusiasts of the Grand Funk Railroad fill New York's Shea Stadium-and only three injuries and six arrests result. After an estimated 1,280 concerts for 3,750,000 music enthusiasts over a period of nearly six years, Promoter Bill Graham closes his Fillmore West in San Francisco, just one week after shutting down Fillmore East in New York City...
...Super C sweeps along the Mississippi River at full speed, then slows to cross into Iowa over a combined highway-railroad bridge. At La Plata, Mo., after crossing to the eastward track to pass a slower freight also heading west, the engineer again opens the throttle fully. With so much power hauling a relatively light train, the Super C seems to reach top speed almost as fast as an automobile. The mileposts flash by, one every 45 seconds...
...crew makes a quick patch. From Winslow the line climbs again to its highest point at Riordan, the 7,313-ft. Arizona Divide. On a fast train like the Super C the crews get a full day's pay for as little as 2½ hours on the railroad. The men lay over in Seligman; if they are not assigned a return run within 16 hours their pay starts again The pay is good: the average on the Albuquerque division is more than $12,000 a year, with senior engineers making $18,000 easily. Trainmaster E.L. Kidd notes that...
...only one club, give an opponent his handicap, and winner take all. Trevino claims that he and his trusty No. 3 iron never lost. When things were slow, he would take on all comers on an obstacle course that began on the first tee and then angled across a railroad crossing, down a gravel road and through a tunnel before ending back on the course. Business was so good (he was averaging $200 a week hustling) that he took an apartment across the street from the course so he could get an earlier start...