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...compound is well-cocooned and calm. Emperor and Empress rise early in their 15-room apartment in the small Fukiage Palace. Hirohito does not particularly enjoy coffee, but drinks it because he considers it an essential part of the Western breakfasts (toast, bacon and eggs or oatmeal) he has eaten since his first trip to Europe 50 years ago. After his meal, he is bowed out the door by the Empress and strolls to the new Imperial Palace, built in 1968 at a cost of $36 million to replace one fire-bombed in the war. The Emperor spends...
...along those lines would probably be greater than the inflationary contracts agreed to recently in steel, copper and aluminum. Those industries settled for rises in wages and benefits of 30% or more over three years. The miners argue that all the increases provided in their present contract have been eaten up by inflation. Largely as a result of productivity gains, today's 100,000 miners produce more than did the 400,000 men who worked in the industry in 1950. The operators could certainly live with a fat pay increase. Last year the after-tax earnings of seven major...
...cursed, a conventional scourge to man. Gardner's Grendel may look like a lump of earth with a hairy pelt, but (conveniently, yet convincingly) he throbs with primal rage, despair, collegiate idealism and existential inquiry. Gardner has also given him a gnawing sense of humor. "I have eaten several priests," Grendel reports. "They sit on the stomach like duck eggs...
...that once perched storklike on stilts above the land now sit in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico; the earth beneath them has washed away. Ecologists blame the erosion on dikes built along the Mississippi River which have diverted the flow of sediment that used to replenish beaches eaten away by the Gulf. If the erosion is not stopped, water from the Gulf may soon slice through State Highway 1, leaving 2,500 Grand Isle residents stranded...
...phrase "catchup increases" is being heard more and more these days in labor negotiations. Inflation has eaten away at the dollar so relentlessly that workers are demanding retroactive cost of living increases just to keep even with rising prices. Last week high settlements in the telephone and copper industries and in the postal service continued the trend. And there is little doubt that the philosophy of catching up is playing a major role in the steel talks that are now under way to replace the industry's current labor contract, which will expire this Saturday...