Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...while past antidrinking crusades have suffered from complacency and lack of enforcement, this time officials really seem to mean business. Last week the Soviet Trade Union Council ordered a crackdown on workers who "drink, loaf or drift." The council recommended that recalcitrant members be expelled and thereby deprived of sick leave and pension benefits...
...than 25% over the next 40 months, or about 8% a year. Workers who averaged $3.25 an hour in wages before the strike will get an increase of 20? immediately, 15? more in 1971 and another 15? in 1972. A cost-of-living escalator clause and changes in pension, sick leave, vacation and other benefits could bring the total cost by some estimates to 88? an hour. That is the kind of settlement that G.E. probably could have got from the unions last fall-but that the unions surely could not have got from G.E.-without a strike...
...Paul Horvitz, captain Mike Cahalan, and Greg Huff, who was also somewhat sick, were the other victors in the freestyle events...
Krause and Huff were not the only sick ones. Toby Gerhart, who swam a leg on each relay, and manager Glenn Koocher made the trip despite illness. Distance freestyler Dave Powlison stayed in Cambridge...
...utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized savagery. An audience should approach this film as it would a field of live mines...