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...hour, or 4% more than the hourly $4.40 in wages and fringe benefits currently earned by the average mill hand. The industry, which started out by offering half the amount sought by the U.S.W., last week came up to some 13? an hour in what Chief Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, 62, called "a last-ditch effort to avoid a steel strike." At the same time, Cooper, an executive vice president of U.S. Steel, insisted: "This...
...even before REP could be released, there was an ominous hint that the mission might be going sour once more. In the final minutes of the first revolution, as Gemini 5 came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...
...types of report the Government once asked of various taxpayers. Most businessmen, however, find federal statistics vital in an era when rising competition and costs are shrinking the margin for error. "If the Government's economic statistics were eliminated," says Economist Conrad Jamison of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank, "it would be like turning out the lights...
...several more were turned away "because there just wasn't any room for them." Even so, the course remains the largest in the Summer School. Coming close in terms of size are to English courses. There are 140 people enrolled in English S-164. "The Modern British Novel: Conrad to Virginia Woolf"; and 122 in English S-151, "The Nineteenth-Century Novel...