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Last month, in an auto-parts plant in Wales, a workman walked off the job because he felt his foreman lacked training. He was suspended; 400 fellow workers then struck in sympathy, and eventually 20,000 workers were idled. When two car bodies came off the Jaguar line poorly polished and were sent back to be redone, polishers said no, and Jaguar was shut down for four weeks. Nor is the auto industry unique. Last week thousands of London commuters were fuming over a railroad slowdown called against the union leader's orders...
...Patricio in southern New Mexico. There he raises Brangus cattle and Thoroughbred horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings for the cover painting (the background shows Shuman's farm in Illinois), artist and subject found a lot of farm topics to talk about and quite...
...Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
...more surprised at D'Andrea's acquittal than Foreman Williams, who later insisted that all six jurors had decided on guilt, even though "some of the men said if we found this white man guilty, the judge would turn him loose, and he would come looking for us." Added Williams: "I can't read or write. I believe I was tricked to sign the wrong paper." Two other jurors agreed with Williams' analysis, but the remaining three swore that they thought all six had voted for innocence. To compound the confusion, three jurors were illiterate...
...verdict expunged on the ground that a six-man jury must be unanimous. Then, if Judge Smith can resolve the issue of possible double jeopardy, D'Andrea may be retried. Ironically, illiteracy is unlikely to be an issue. Had the foreman signed the guilty slip in the same mistaken manner, D'Andrea could have raised that issue as a denial of fair trial. For the mo ment, though, he is delighted with the verdict of his illiterate peers...