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...tipsters) soon got them open and were off in pop-eyed pursuit. Catching word that something was up, two carloads of police screeched up to the clinic, a poor third behind Aly and the press. After that, 20 cops in uniform and plain clothes joined the newsmen in an eight-hour vigil outside the building. Excited Swiss who lived across from the clinic fed the newsmen hot tea. The manager of the Lausanne-Palace Hotel arrived with a milk can full of hot grog...
...some of whom had precipitated the walkout (say the miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...
...trouble, he said, centered in the vast "B" Building of the 1,096-acre Rouge plant, where assembly lines normally spill out between 330 and 350 Fords every eight-hour working day. For several months, Reuther said, Ford had been speeding up the assembly line without consulting the union or adding more workers. Reuther called this "an unsolved grievance." Ford denied the union's charges, suggested arbitration as provided by the contract. Reuther countered that the arbitrator would have to be "part doctor, engineer and astrologer...
Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu, thus putting the first Stratocruiser into commercial service on the San Francisco-Honolulu eight-hour run. Next month a second plane will probably start on the New York-Bermuda run; by fall, Trippe's $30 million fleet of 20 Stratocruisers will be deployed over Pan American's global route pattern, boosting the airline's carrying capacity a huge 40%. They will further shrink a world which aviation long ago, for better or worse, made small...
...Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...