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...major industry in the past two years"? For most dissidents, money was not the rub: the agreement offers miners pay raises, over three years, that would lift their average hourly wage from $7.80 to $10.15. In all, wages and fringes would increase nearly 37%. But the contract also authorizes stiff penalties for absenteeism and, more important, seeks to do away with wildcat strikes. It allows mineowners to discipline wildcatters by requiring such strikers to pay $20 a day, for up to ten days per month, into the U.M.W. benefit funds. Many miners have grown up deeply suspicious of the owners...
...made her first big splash ten years ago, as a body-painted bikini girl on the old Laugh-In show. Now Goldie Hawn has switched to basketball scrimmages with the Harlem Globetrotters. "Playing with these guys, you've got to keep a stiff elbow and a stiff upper lip," explained the 5-ft. 6-in. Hawn, who taped the meeting for her March 1 TV special on CBS. More elbow and less lip might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk...
...Carter that the Shiloh settlement was authorized strictly as an archaeological exploration site, though the settlers themselves admitted frankly that they were in Shiloh to stay. The U.S. had hoped to avoid an open quarrel with Jerusalem on the eve of Sadat's visit, but Carter did send a stiff letter about Shiloh to Begin, who was said to be shocked and angered by its language. Privately, Administration officials are furious, feeling they have not been fairly treated by the Premier and his colleagues. They understood Dayan to have told them last September that there would be no new civilian...
Saint Laurent's new diaphanous chiffon dresses, often edged in ruffles, left no doubt about the feminine silhouette within. "They are much more feminine and easy to wear than the wide, stiff taffeta gowns of the earlier collections," proclaimed Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, of his $2,000-to-$7,500 designs...
...tough night for Laurie Downey, who faced a stiff challange in her specialty--the breaststroke--from Wildcat Debbie Panzik. A judge's decision gave Downey the opening round in the 100-yd. backstroke but Panzik took the return matchup in the 200-yd. backstroke. But Downey also added firsts in the two relays...