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...these charges, Hoffa faces a possible retrial of the original Nashville case, plus a separate trial in a federal court in Florida on charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with a Teamster real estate venture. Despite these legal troubles, Hoffa still retains a firm grip on the steering wheel of his huge Teamsters Union. Only two weeks ago, he won a decisive victory over insurgent Teamsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. A National Labor Relations Board election gave Teamsters in the four-state region a choice between Hoffa's union and a rival union...
...fuel that will burn in a test tube-from kerosene to peanut oil. Its basic works are uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army...
Snakes & Storks. In a housewifely break with royal precedent, Alex gave Harrods' department store a list of the wedding presents she wanted; they included an ironing board, a dozen plain Whitefriar glasses ($1.16 each) and a roulette wheel. When one town council asked if she had any other notions, the no-nonsense princess replied: "Give us the money, and let us buy something we really want." (They got a check for $170.) Other gifts poured in from governments and citizens all over the world...
...willing to work for peanuts. Everything that can possibly go wrong, does. At one point, while Capannelle keeps an eye peeled for the polizia, another member of the gang steals a parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire ($130,000), but only by dumb luck. They stow it in a suitcase and the suitcase in a baggage room. The check-"Hey!" hollers Gassman. "What...
After a plasticultured crop is picked, the film is gathered by a picturesque machine called a "desert stern-wheeler"-a great canted wheel studded with spikes, that picks up the used polyethylene for burning...