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...fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted. In March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning," a system that would employ only enough workers to run the presses efficiently. The goal is to bring the ratio of men to machines in the pressroom down to that of many newspapers across the country. The union argues that innovations at the papers have...
Then came the shock. After a few hours, the black-uniformed troops began firing into the air. It was a signal for Phnom Penh's entire population, swollen by refugees to some 3 million, to abandon the city. Young and old, the well and the sick, businessmen and beggars, were all ordered at gunpoint onto the streets and highways leading into the countryside...
...same time, the prewar prisoner population of 15 million was swollen by the arrival of millions of young Red Army veterans. Most were survivors of the Nazi P.O.W. camps whom Stalin had dispatched to the Gulag for the crime of having been captured. Though Solzhenitsyn had never been taken, he belonged to this new breed of camp rebels; a much decorated artillery captain, he had been arrested at the front for having written letters critical of Stalin. Leadership of the resistance movement was provided by prisoners from the western Ukraine, former guerrilla fighters who had alternately fought the Nazis...
...Harvard never really had a chance after Princeton coach Dave Benjamin wheeled out freshman cannon Jay Lapidus, the Tiger ace who had sat out the singles with a swollen ankle. Lundy and Chaikovsky put up a game fight, but Lapidus and Shiras proved more than equal to the task, as they prevailed...
...Mellon's English collection had swollen to the point where not even he had seen it all together; it was time to consider a public home for it. As president of the museum his father built, Mellon recounts: "It would have pleased me to give them to the National Gallery; the trouble was, it could never have hung more than an infinitesimal part of this very comprehensive collection, so the vast majority would have been in storage. I didn't like the idea of that." Yale, however, was pre-eminent in English 18th and 19th century literary studies...