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...Board election, take 8,000 members of Local 107 and three other locals out of the Teamsters and into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The Hoffa forces were headed by ham-fisted Raymond Cohen, 55, for eight years 107s secretary-treasurer. Last August, it took more than 100 Philadelphia police and firemen to break up a pitched battle between the rebels and Cohen's followers. Since then, rebel leaders say their cars have been bombed and shot at; just before the election, four rebels said they had been clubbed by goons carrying baseball bats. The outcome was predictable though the margin...
...rode a variety of comic animals, slid down a firemen's pole, peeled potatoes and performed the thousand other idiocies expected of a candidate. He accosted people on the street, poked a finger into their chests and told them what he thought about politics. Once he walked up to a man and asked him to shake hands. The fellow refused. A crowd gathered. Romney challenged him once more, and still the man declined. Roared Romney as the man stalked away: "See what I mean about partisanship? This man won't even shake hands with me! This is what...
...precedent in future negotiations between the railroads and the telegraphers. More important yet, last week's ruling will weaken the hand of all rail unions in their fight to defy the recommendations of the presidential board, which last February urged the elimination of 40,000 diesel-locomotive "firemen" and other unneeded workers on U.S. railroads...
Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). This episode documents the extraordinary work of Rescue Company One, a group of New York firemen who handle unusual blazes...
Progressive Songs. Sagging earth above the tunnel caused a break in a water line, but West Berlin firemen came to the rescue with a pump to drain the tunnel. A second flooding occurred at the 300-ft. mark, well inside East Berlin, when a water pipe burst near the tunnel. Fortunately, the East German repairmen who fixed the pipe did not notice the excavation below. As digging was resumed, the molelike students could hear the Communist loudspeakers on the Wall above them blaring out "progressive workers' " songs...