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...salaries of certain city employees, including craft workers, at rates comparable to pay for similar jobs in other California cities-not, as in the past, to wages paid in private industry. To add to San Francisco's misery, drivers for Yellow Cab, the city's largest fleet, were also on strike for a while. By week's end, however, their walkout was settled, slightly easing the transportation scarcity...
...planes, tinkered with design improvements and harassed TWA's presidents with interminable post-midnight calls. On transcontinental flights, four to six seats were always blocked off for him even though he almost never used them. After Hughes' failure to raise the money for TWA's jet fleet, he lost control of the airline, and the new management hit him with an antitrust suit. Hughes won it in the U.S. Supreme Court. By that time, however, he had sold his huge bloc of TWA at a moment when the market was very high. He got $546 million...
Both squads will face stiff competition this weekend. Radcliffe will travel to Wellesley for league competition against a strong fleet, including last year's national champion, Princeton...
...puzzlement) at the evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon in a weekend fleet of fiber-glass runabouts...
Posters plastered all over the picturesque fishing port of New Bedford, Mass., proclaim: THE SOVIET FISHING FLEET IS TWELVE MILES OFF OUR COAST AND SUCKING UP EVERYTHING THAT SWIMS, CRAWLS OR HIDES IN THE SAND. Beneath ominous-looking silhouettes of Russian trawlers, the posters urge: SUPPORT THE 200-MILE FISHING LIMIT. Congress is now getting the message. This week both House and Senate are expected to pass a bill extending U.S. jurisdiction over coastal waters from its present twelve miles to 200 miles; President Ford's signature is likely. Under the bill, which will take effect next March...