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...because the tea was not made exactly to the employees' liking, because the number of sausages in factory-canteen sandwiches was cut from two to one, or because three brewery workers were fired for guzzling more than their traditional two free pints of beer on the job. A Bristol shipyard was struck for three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line around a plastic pattern. Almost every skilled craft worker in Britain still demands and gets a "mate" to carry his tools and do his lifting and fetching for him-a medieval hangover...
...country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later, at the age of 39, he decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper. A few months later, he learned that some stock was for sale in the Washington County News, the county's leading weekly (circ. 4,000), founded in 1948 by the son of Author Sherwood Anderson. Bowman eagerly went deeper into debt...
...last February. No comment about that from his wife Dyan, 28, but Gary was still busting his buttons when little Jennifer turned four months old. He brought in a photographer to make some shots to show off to the world, then packed up the family for a trip to Bristol, England, to let his 89-year-old mother have a look at the little beauty...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Spring National Drag Racing Championships in Bristol, Tenn., and the World Invitational High Diving Championship in Las Vegas...
...some time, but, mergers within the British aviation industry itself are in the offing. The government hopes to induce a merger between the two big airframe manufacturers, British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley, and perhaps even to try to unite the two proud jet engine builders, Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley. The combined companies presumably would be able to lift productivity, which is only one-third as high as in the U.S. aerospace industry, and two-thirds as high as in the French. By combining resources at home and abroad. British planemakers stand a chance of recapturing the secret that...