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Neither side expressed optimism on a swift settlement. The strike until now has not greatly affected construction because crews have built around plumbing jobs, Holland said...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Electricians, MBTA Agree on Pact | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...electricians' swift settlement is in marked contrast to the bitter and ineffective negotiations characterizing the one-week old plumbers strike...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Electricians, MBTA Agree on Pact | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...gentleman who stooped to kiss the hand of Phyllis George Brown got a swift kick from behind and a lesson in Georgian etiquette. "You shouldn't kiss a married lady. She's married to the Governor of Kentucky," scolded Miss Lillian Carter. Thereafter, the President's mother stood close by fair Phyllis at a party hosted by the Browns aboard Publisher Malcolm Forbes' yacht. "I felt like my mother was there," giggled Phyllis. Among the weighty matters the two discussed were food and dieting. "We're shrimping it," said Phyllis, as she daintily split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 25, 1980 | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...names Whiteside calls people are intermingled with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Reign of Good Old Nick | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...third largest military force in the world.* Pulling most of its crack divisions out of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia, Hanoi has massed 250,000 to 300,000 troops along its frontier with China. Another invasion by Peking, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has warned, would lead to swift and humiliating defeat for the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: We Are Strong and Stubborn | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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