Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Americans associate racing with either the Indianapolis 500 or Richard Petty and redneck stock car races on Southern oval tracks. Like actors and baseball players, racing enthusiasts are regarded as somewhat declasse. But the Harvard-dominated Medenica team defies all the stereotypes, both in racing style and in personnel. They compete in Formula Ford road racing, on Grand Prix-style courses with single-seat cars equipped with 1600cc. Ford Fiesta motors. While Formula Ford cars can't match the flat-out power of Indy types they still average 90 to 100 mph on twisting, graded courses...
...next evening the money was handed over in a cafe located less than 100 yds. from Caransa's office. Then, early the following morning, two of the kidnapers drove Caransa into central Amsterdam and shoved him out of the car. Shivering in the rain, with electrical-wire manacles dangling from his arms and legs, and wearing one patent-leather shoe, the kidnap victim snouted: "I am Caransa, help me, help me!" After hailing a cab, Caransa made his way to police headquarters...
Last week its prospects for survival suddenly improved. Rejecting the advice of militant shop stewards, Leyland's 100,000 car workers voted 2 to 1 for a package of bargaining reforms that holds at least some hope of ending labor anarchy. The results of the vote came on the first day in office of Michael Edwardes, who was named chairman by the government, getting his term off to an auspicious start...
...boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against each other. For two years, the warning was mostly ignored, and Leyland continued...
Leyland's car workers voted to replace this chaotic state of affairs with a single companywide labor pact, to be negotiated by November 1979. The centralized agreement is to provide that all Leyland plants pay the same wage for comparable jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved...