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Farmers Dumped. An ad hoc group of militants calling themselves the Ulster Workers Council proclaimed a general strike on May 14. They appealed to employees of the power plants, most of whom are Protestants, to stay off the job. Electricity output was cut to a trickle, forcing frequent blackouts and slowing industrial operations. The work stoppage spread to other industries, even though trade unions refused to support the strike...
...member White House Commission selects approximately 15 Fellows annually for the program, which includes assignments as assistants to senior White House staff members, the vice president, Cabinet officers, or other top government officials. In addition, the Fellows have frequent discussions with prominent figures and extensive domestic and foreign travel...
Republican Senator Edward J. Gurney, President Nixon's most frequent defender on the Senate Watergate committee, has been running for re-election in Florida under the cloud of a scandal of his own. He was indicted in April for violating a Florida election law by not naming a campaign treasurer or setting up a special bank account. The charge involved funds, reportedly as much as $400,000, raised on Gurney's behalf from building contractors seeking influence with the Federal Housing Authority. But last week a Leon County judge, Charles McClure, dismissed the indictment as "fatally defective...
Exposure is not by any means limited to those who frequent asbestos factories. The combined effects of day-to-day wear and tear on asbestos-containing products, as well as a certain degree of industrial planned obsolescence, insure that varying amounts of the fiber will be continuously liberated into the consumer's air. Floor tiles scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This...
...frumpy Gert is as disconcertingly direct as the belaying pin with which she flattens obstreperous patrons of her waterfront bar. If one of the seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking an ocean...