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...Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options for 26 ships-the largest transaction from a single customer in British history...
...order, which included ten supertankers of 260,000-to 330,000-ton carrying capacity, is only part of Maritime's plan to add a lucrative business in hauling oil to its rich slice of worldwide fruit shipping. Altogether, Maritime now has 23 VLCCs (very large crude carriers) under construction throughout the world, including three 265,000-ton monsters being built in the U.S. by Bethlehem Steel Corp. for $235 million...
...takes anywhere from eight to 48 hours. Now a team of Lynn, Mass., emergency-room physicians has found a way to do the job faster. Drs. Louis Kunian, James Wasco and Lawrence Hulefeld of Lynn Hospital report in Emergency Medicine that intravenous infusions of fructose, a sugar found in fruit, can sober up a drunk with unusual speed. However the fructose works-the doctors speculate that it may inhibit alcohol's effects on the nervous system -the sugar is undoubtedly efficient. Of 30 alcoholics treated thus far, all but one sobered up in 2% hours or less...
...growers, who need about 2,000 workers, say the rules are not enforced. Union representatives, in turn, claim that the minimum wage of $1.30 per hour is so low that it is not worth reaching for. If the two sides cannot come together, about $30 million in rotten fruit will soon fall in between them-pulpy proof that the welfare ethic and the work ethic must find some common ground...
...they seldom did in the days before Britain entered the EEC. Ronald Davidson, owner of Osborne House, has pleaded that the pork pies fit into the allowed category of pate en croute, that his sausages are really boudin blanc, and that Rose's Lime Juice is a permissible fruit extract. But the continental customs men-to whom a British delicacy is a contradiction in terms, anyway-have turned a deaf...