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...Quickly they filled austere Court Room No. 2, in which Federal Judge John J. Sirica had presided over 61 days of legal argument, testimony and the playing of 34 tapes since the trial opened on Oct. 1. Sirica entered the room at 4:47 p.m. and faced the jury foreman, John Hoffar, a pale, retired superintendent of park police. Did the jurors have a verdict? "Yes, they have," Hoffar replied impassively...
...sugar prices. Since January, the store price of a 5-lb. bag of sugar has rocketed from 900 to $3.45; wholesale sugar prices have been raised seven times in the past six weeks. Consumers have tried to strike back by organizing sporadic regional boycotts, and last week Carol Tucker Foreman, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, which claims 30 million members, announced plans for a nationwide boycott from Dec. 1 to 10. Even some grocery chains are urging shoppers to buy substitutes rather than sugar...
...mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes out, it means that the oxygen has been depleted to dangerous levels. Each man has clipped to his belt a small canister...
...enough. His foreman ordered him to go back and work the ovens for a while. He refused and called for his steward. Since all the union stewards had been fired during the wildcat, except those who signed a pledge promising no more walkouts, Johnson had no one to help him. By the time a substitute steward got there the foreman in charge had already started writing out the order to fire him, without the required informal UAW conference. They scolded him and told him he was fired. Later that day Johnson came back with an M-1 carbine and shot...
...matchmakers were counting dollars, they were also wondering when All would return to the ring for another payday-in a rematch with Foreman, perhaps, or a third fight with Joe Frazier. All talk of quitting the ring evaporated. "I'm not gonna retire for a while," declared Ali. "I might fight again, but they gotta get up $10 million before I think...