Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newbury Park, Calif...
South Africa has contracted with Fluor Corp. of Irvine, Calif., to build the two additional, much larger plants...
...some 382 million today vs. 267 million only three years ago. In addition to his regular job as a mechanic, Mike does bodywork on damaged autos in San Francisco for cash on the cylinder head and pockets $100 to $200 a month in undeclared income. Bob, a Santa Cruz, Calif bartender, declares his $5 hourly wage but not his $100 weekly take in tips. "You don't have to worry about getting caught," he explains. "It's your word against the IRS."-Jerry, a Cincinnati lawyer, provides "free advice" to an employment agency for domestics. In exchange...
...Left a quadriplegic by a truck accident that was not his fault, Thomas Curtis, 57, waited five years before his personal injury suit went to trial in Modesto, Calif. A jury awarded him more than $2 million last January, but a judge reduced the damages to $350,000, and the case will probably be another three years on appeal before Curtis sees any money...
DIED. David J. McDonald, 76, president of the United Steelworkers of America (1952-65); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A third-generation labor organizer, McDonald claimed, "I was born with a union spoon in my mouth." In 1959 he staged one of the costliest strikes in U.S. history-a 116-day walkout. Under fire as a "tuxedo unionist" who had lost touch with the rank and file, he surrendered his post in 1965 to his deputy, I.W. Abel...