Word: dock
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WHILE President Nixon's New Economic Policy aims to bolster the U.S. trade balance, much of the nation's commerce with the world remains in the Limbo Phase, stalled by a devastating dock strike. First the West Coast was shuttered by a walkout in July; it ended at least temporarily when Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period Oct. 6, but many ports are still clogged with backed-up vessels. Then, in October, some East and Gulf Coast dock workers walked out. Last week that stoppage spread to all but seven fairly...
...piling corn on the streets in Iowa for the first time. The dock strike is partly the reason, but the fantastic surplus is another. Back in February any ordinary working farmer could see what was going to happen. There was no excuse for the Agriculture Department to encourage more planting. Farmers are still harvesting now, but in a couple months they're going to start settling up-paying for their gas and fertilizer and taxes. Then they're going to find out that the crop the Agriculture Department caused and the farmers produced isn't going...
Sailing coach Mike Horn is particularly enthusiastic about the floats, also conceived by Walter Everett. The ability to manuever the floats into the wind greatly eases docking facilities for sailboats which must head into the wind to stop and dock. In addition both sides of the seven sixteen-foot sections of floats can be utilized to make over 100 feet of space on each side. The segments, which absorb waves more smoothly than one continuous span can be dismantled and piled on top of each other for easy storage in the winter...
...continuing public affairs series include The Advocates, a mock-trial show grappling with nettlesome subjects like last week's "Should the Government drop charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg?" Top-level advocates are always on the dock (the premiere about Ellsberg featured ex-Senator Ernest Gruening and Professor Noam Chomsky), but in the past the program has as often sensationalized or trivialized public debate as it has illuminated...
...Pirates scored first and early, stealing three runs on one hit in the second inning after a walk, a wild pitch and two errors by the usually impeccable Baltimore defense. But in the Baltimore half of the same inning, Frank Robinson opened with a home run off Pittsburgh Starter Dock Ellis; in the third, Merv Rettenmund unloaded another, this time with two men on. A final Oriole home run by Don Buford in the fifth made it 5-3, ending the scoring-and the Pirates' hopes...