Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...flaw in the emergency chute: it peels the panty hose right off women in miniskirts. In addition, the giant Pratt & Whitney engines have been particularly troublesome. The latest difficulty involves bolts that occasionally loosen in flight and permit a small metal plate to fly through the engine, forcing a shutdown. Now when a 747 touches down for a landing, mechanics often use a periscope-like device called a chamberscope to check that the bolts or plate are not loose...
Approximately 300 striking University employees met yesterday afternoon in Memorial Church, but the movement for an all-University shutdown including employees has apparently bogged down in confusion and discord...
...United Front for Panther Defense, which called for the shutdown, issued a fistful of aggressive demands, including a $500,000 Yale contribution to the Panther legal-defense fund and a food donation to the Panther breakfast program to feed as many children as there are black students at Yale College (about 250). The real goal, though, was to mobilize Yale's students and teachers to help stop or at least influence the murder trial. The climate was such that Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. saw no unreason in characterizing the murder trial as "legally right but morally wrong...
...prosperous white-collar state, a decline in Du Pont profits that began last year is expected to force reductions in state spending-most likely for educational television and enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. The Pennsylvania government had to extend an extra $15 million in aid to Philadelphia to avert a shutdown of the city's schools...
...hangs over the country. No sooner had the postal strike ended than another group of federal employees, the nation's professional air-traffic controllers, began delaying hundreds of flights daily and causing the cancellation of others by a planned "sick-out." The nation's railroads face a shutdown if no action is taken on union demands by April 11 Printers and mailers have voted to strike New York City newspapers if their requests are not met. Some 425,000 of the country's Teamsters have rejected a trucking-industry offer and are set to walk off their...