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...just missed a catch: five kids are being escorted out the loading dock by seven of Don's people. Which is the reason some of us have arrived in mid-afternoon. There are many entrances to the Garden; it's not impossible for some enterprising people to get into the Garden, then into the second balcony, and hole up in the air shafts for five or six hours until showtimy. And it's being done, despite precautions that include police patrols--with dogs--on the roof, and a head security man who knows as much about entrance points...
...mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...
Some New York dock workers are stealing themselves right out of jobs. Pilferage is so pervasive that not even the increasing use of sealed metal containers the size of 20-ft. truck trailers stops it. In the past two years, at least 26-and perhaps many more-huge containers have been stolen. Large stretches of the waterfront are poorly policed because jurisdiction is splintered among the bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Waterfront Commission and a host of other agencies. Much of the work falls to private police hired by the pier owners, but many...
...repeated strikes, the International Longshoremen's Association has forced New York stevedoring companies into a contract guaranteeing longshoremen 2,080 hours of pay each year, whether or not there is work to be done. Says a New York-based ship operator: "The union contracts are negotiated between the dock workers and the stevedoring companies; but the companies that suffer the most are the shipping firms that have invested a lot in facilities in New York. Higher costs simply drive their business away...
...coordinate communications further, an American flight controller will probably have to be on duty at the Soviet mission control in Tyuratam while a Russian stands by in Houston. The crews will also train together in both countries. Beyond that, the U.S. and Russia must make their craft capable of docking. The solution will be to equip them with compatible latch-rimmed rings. Clasped together like interlocking fingers, the first three pairs of latches to meet will provide a preliminary hookup, or "soft" dock. The eight other pairs will assure a final "hard" connection. Indeed, U.S. space officials are hoping that...