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...pulled back from the brink of a major confrontation in Warsaw, the increasingly militant workers are plainly in no mood to pussyfoot. In two towns last week they occupied government offices. Textile employees also walked off the job in Lodz, and pay disputes interrupted operations at a reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect...
...designed by John Conklin, is a jungle of color, an obstacle course of clutter. The plethoric flowers do serve a purpose. Tracy Lord (Blythe Banner) is going to rewed one George Kittredge (Richard Council), an up-from-the-proles coal company manager. As everyone who has seen the matchless Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant-James Stewart movie knows, the next 24 hours constitute a lifetime for Tracy. She takes a compromising midnight swim in the nude with Journalist Macaulay ("Mike") Connor (Edward Herrmann), sheds her fiance, and is reconciled to her ex-alcoholic, ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Frank Converse...
...Western corporations operate and made him eager to do business with them. Aside from some real estate in England and interests in a few West German companies, his investments are concentrated in the U.S. Most of his portfolio is in shares of utilities and companies involved in coal and other resources. But about a third of his holdings are in stocks of nine banks. Explains Olayan: "Their resources are infinite. Their raw material is money, and it does not deplete" like oil and gas. Associates also cite a gut interest in banking, perhaps stemming from a time 15 years...
Electrical problems in Cornell's coal boiler forced the heating plant to switch to oil-fueled boilers. When emergency supplies of oil ran out last Tuesday, Cornell officials ordered all students to leave the campus. The university is scheduled to reopen tomorrow morning...
Robert M. Matyas, the Cornell official responsible for facilities, said the coal boiler passed a periodic inspection prior to the breakdown. Heating plant managers and employees were not at fault, he added...