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...pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
Serious negotiations got under way on Tuesday in a reception room in the shipyard's red brick conference hall. With scores of Western newsmen looking on through a glass wall, the two teams faced each other over a long, narrow wooden table. A battery of microphones sent their voices echoing out over the shipyard's public address system; portions of the extraordinary negotiations were even broadcast over Gdansk radio...
...strike life was a dirty brick building in the center of the sprawling shipyard. A press center inside issued journalists' credentials, and worker-translators wore yellow armbands indicating which foreign languages they spoke. In the conference hall, representatives of striking factories sat at four long tables. Tape recorders took down the proceedings, to be replayed for comrades back in other factories. From a corner table, women in white smocks distributed sausages, cheese and sandwiches...
Neither the arrests nor Gierek's appeals to reason appeared to bring the strikes any closer to a settlement. In the grimy, red-brick conference hall of Lenin Shipyard, Gierek's speech was greeted with derision. "He said nothing new at all," said a dockworker from Gdynia. "He talked to us as if we were children." Many workers ignored the speech entirely, basking shirtless in the sun and playing cards during the live broadcast...