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...helping Orlando land the 1978 International Chamber of Commerce convention. He promised that Brevard County would get "excellent consideration" as a site for a federal solar-research center. By funny happenstance, too, just before last week's election, the Air Force awarded an Orlando company a $33.6 million contract for missiles, and the Department of Transportation granted $15 million to launch a rapid-transit system for Dade County. In addition, Ford courted the Cuban vote by ordering more immigration officials to Miami to accelerate naturalization proceedings. He wooed conservatives by strongly suggesting to one of their leaders, Jerry Thomas...
...charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands' leading newspaper, Amsterdam's Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the late dictator Juan Peron and other Argentine officials to clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train for el Lider and $12,000 in jewelry for his second wife, Evita...
...business, the most hazardous industry in America. Correspondingly, the UMWA is a rough union. Often its leaders are tough, two-fisted men, up from the rank-and-file. The legendary John L. Lewis, founder of the CIO and UMWA president for 40 years, was a formidable adversary in any contract negotiation, and he was scared of nothing. When the UMWA struck in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring troops in to mine the coal. Lewis, who had split with CIO president and one-time close associate Philip Murray in 1940 over Roosevelt's third-term bid, said in his gravelly...
...talks resulted from comments made by Tiant earlier this week, when he stated that he wouldn't pitch this year unless he got a raise and an extension on his contract. Tiant has been working out at Brookline High School...
Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and treasurer John Harrington met with attorney Bob Woolf in Boston yesterday to iron out a contract between the club and right-hander Luis Tiant...