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...getting word back were problems for the newsmen. In palmier days American troops had provided helicopters, telephone links and logistical support. Now the South Vietnamese army ran the show, and it was studiously indifferent. When some commercial flights within the country were suspended, newsmen had to turn to charter planes. Said NBC'S TV News vice president, Richard Fischer: "We are totally in the hands of the various crooks who run charter services...
Died. Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, 63, hardhitting Hall of Fame outfielder; of an apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game...
BAWS does not have a legal charter or a shiny new headquarters building along the Potomac. But scattered throughout the Government are thousands of men and women who depend on it for their livelihood. Other thousands who gave more than a decade of their most creative years to BAWS feel compelled to continue their search for vindication of their positions...
...cause is a sharp drop in the growth of world oil consumption since the cartel countries dictated their four fold price increase last year. A 7% de cline in West European oil imports since then has sent tanker charter rates plunging. Before the oil embargo started in October 1973, the cost of a spot charter (one or two trips) of a 220,000-ton super tanker for the 11,000-mile round trip from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam reached a record $8.8 million. By mid-November, the rate had fallen to $2.6 million. Today a 220,000-ton tanker...
...decided to revitalize 186. He called a meeting: nobody came. He called a second meeting and eight people showed up, a third to which 25 people came, and so on. At one point in the drive Local 186 had 15 cents in its treasury. The local got its charter and Stefani took over as business agent on February 11, 1937, but kept working at the Copley until 1963. Only once, in 1941, did someone run against him for business agent, but Stefani swamped...