Word: bells
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...eyed Mexican customs official noted that he had trouble remembering which leg had the limp. Charles Richard Helms, 25, selected in a lottery by some of his classmates at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., to smuggle coke through Mexico, was caught with 2.6 kilos concealed under his bell-bottom trousers. Katherine Lou Simmons, 25, a Hollywood pianist, was arrested when officials discovered that her roundly curved belly was not a sign of pregnancy; she had strapped a mound of coke to her lower abdomen...
Wrong Number. Last weekend negotiators struggled to avert a nationwide walkout by 710,000 Bell Telephone System employees. The Bell workers' motives were not unlike those of employees in other industries riddled with or threatened by strikes. American Telephone & Telegraph had offered wage increases averaging 9.4% this year and totaling 15% over the next three years...
That was not enough for the 500,000 Bell workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (whose pro-strike vote ran 7 to 1) or for the 210,000 other telephone workers in two other unions. C.W.A. President Glenn E. Watts argued, and the members concurred, that the first-year offer alone should be 14%-that is, 11% to keep up with inflation and 3% more as a reward for Bell's productivity gains. If there is a nationwide telephone strike, it would have an immediate, though slight impact on users who would not be able...
Spain also attracted less political types, the Robert Jordans of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. This is not the aimless, rootless Jake in Pamplona, but a committed American from Idaho who leaves his post as a schoolteacher to help the Spanish people defend their liberty. Jordan--laconic, straightforward, and uncomplicated--joins a group of Spanish peasants working behind the Nationalist lines and, while working with them to blow up an enemy supply bridge, comes to feel less of an alien among these backward people. In the three tense days of preparation he senses his impending death, almost kills...
...Future. Bad as things looked, the future looks even worse. The 500,000-member Communications Workers of America turned down an offer by the Bell Telephone System of a 10% pay increase and authorized union locals to take a strike vote. In the vital coal industry, the opening salvos were fired in what seemed likely to become an all-out offensive by the United Mine Workers. The union briefly threatened to stage a nationwide work stoppage to pressure a subsidiary of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., which is resisting U.M.W. efforts to organize its workers...