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BUSINESS WATCHDOG wants more staff and money to step up its activities. After busiest year in its history, the Federal Trade Commission wants 70% more staff and a 50% increase over current $8,000,000 budget to intensify its campaign against misleading claims and antitrust violations...
Back from negotiating a political settlement in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week put his hand to some pressing business in his own state: a 25-day strike of railroad trainmen on the Long Island Railroad, the busiest U.S. commuter line. Neither labor nor management showed any sign of budging, but Rocky was in a mood to push. He summoned railroad executives, union officials, state and federal mediators. Early one morning, they trooped into his sleek, grey-carpeted Manhattan office. Rockefeller briskly ushered management and union men into different rooms and closed the doors behind them...
Prototype: Idlewild. The most glittering airport showcase-and one of the first to be rebuilt-is New York International Airport at Idlewild, the gateway to the U.S. (an estimated 8,550,000 air travelers this year). Because Idlewild is one of the world's busiest airports (an average of 640 landings and takeoffs a day) and a technological primer of jet age forethought, it has become the prototype and laboratory for many of the world's changing airports. This week ten officials of Aeroflot, the Soviet civil airline, will poke through every nook and cranny of Idlewild...
...stands behind more whizzing bats in U.S. major league ballparks than even the busiest catcher is a slim, gregarious Kentuckian named John A. Hillerich Jr. "Bud" Hillerich, 49, is the president of Louisville's venerable (76 years) Hillerich & Bradsby Co. In its rickety red brick factory, H. & B. turns out 60% of all U.S. bats, including the famed Louisville Slugger, used by almost all big leaguers. This year the company will produce more than 4,000,000 bats, ranging from a $1.25 model for Little Leaguers to $4.60 copies of big league bats. Most of the bats are machine...
...nation's busiest commuter railroad was closed down this week by a strike aimed at setting a precedent for U.S. railroads. After last-minute negotiations collapsed, 1,350 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen walked off the Long Island Railroad, which carries 175,000 riders daily in and out of New York City. The trainmen are striking for a five-day week but want to continue receiving the seven days' pay they now get for working six. No major U.S. railroad has a five-day week for employees who man the trains, and a settlement on union...