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...prize of the day went to the Queen Mab, an imitation of a paddle-wheel river boat. Ward awarded four cases of beer to the craft, citing it as "the most extravagant, colossal and stupendous raft and the most likely to be hit by low flying aircraft...
...Neville, an Adams House junior, easily snared the prize for the "most blasphemous and sacrilegious craft" for floating down the Charles on a large cross...
...most steel mills there are basically three kinds of jobs: well-paid craft and production posts for whites, dirtier and lesser-paid jobs for minorities and clerical jobs for women. A landmark consent decree signed last week by the United Steelworkers of America and nine major companies* promises to change that situation. The agreement, which ends a Government suit against the companies and the union, is the first job-discrimination settlement to cover almost an entire industry...
Under the agreement, some 40,000 women and minority workers will receive $30.9 million in back wages this year to compensate them for past discrimination. Half of all new craft and trade job openings, and 25% of all supervisory and management-training spots, must be given to women and minority workers until their representation in each job category equals specific standards that are now being set for each plant. Moreover, union members cannot lose seniority or pay by switching job categories...
Writers about the Old West are the battery hens of fiction, their relative status usually assessed in terms of yield. Questions of individual flavor, style or craft are usually redundant. Thus Louis L'Amour, who has produced 60 or so novels to date, is a spring chicken compared with Zane Grey, creator of 89 extra-large books (approximately 9 million words) between 1904 and 1939, or Max Brand (Destry Rides Again), who could turn out 14 pages an hour, and managed a total of 25 million words and 13 pen names before his death...