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...fateful collision could have been foreseen by any air controller, without even a glance at the ghostly blips on his radarscope. Like a Piper Cub lost in a thunderstorm, the tiny Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization?representing 85% of the 17,500 federal employees who direct the nation's air traffic?veered wildly off course. It flew into a rage against its employer, launching an illegal federal strike. An angry Ronald Reagan, revving up the full jumbo-jet power of the U.S. Government, deliberately bore down on the defiant union. The result was inevitable: the controllers crashed, the U.S. kept...
...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...
...along with their wives, when they found themselves awkwardly twiddling away at home. The strike threw thousands of stadium workers (vendors, ushers and the like) out of work; it wiped out the profits of the bars and restaurants around the ballparks. At the Cubby Bear Lounge, where many Chicago Cub fans like to do their pre-and post-game drinking, Owner George Lukas has had to lay off the day bartender; his business has dried up. The strike has disturbed not only the psyches of the fans but all the lives that depend on them. Fortunately, the San Diego Chicken...
Sparky Anderson's Detroit Tigers lost ten consecutive games. The hapless Chicago Cubs dropped twelve in a row before slipping and defeating the Cardinals 6-1. Some diehard Cub supporters have had enough. During the streak, a contingent of fans showed up at Wrigley Field wearing paper bags over their heads, and another group wore disguises. "We're too embarrassed to show our faces," said Disc Jockey Bob Del Giorno from behind a fake nose and eyeglasses. Season Ticket Holder Al Bernstein, however, is one of the many who declined to join the covered-face revolt...
...teach a group of Cub Scouts to do portfolio analysis...