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...other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation. It just gathered." Conceded Kentucky Miner Tommy Gaston, a member of the union's negotiating team: "I think the biggest problem was that the contract was not properly explained to the members fit had been, I think the pact would have passed...
...diplomatic rebuffs at the U.N., and its reasserted plans to establish six new Jewish settlements on the West Bank. The American envoy was also concerned about the distracting influence of West European initiatives in the Middle East, including a current peace mission by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn. The Camp David negotiations, declared Linowitz sharply, are "the only game in town...
...Ethiopian rabbits made more mischief in the 5,000, taking runs at anyone with the temerity to challenge their flagship. The most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...
...police theorized that the murderer had to be someone who was familiar with the Met's backstage maze of corridors, dressing rooms, stairways and elevator shafts, in which Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera would feel very much at home. Further, said the officers, the killer probably was a Met employee, since he managed to get by guards at the door and pass unchallenged among the 250 dancers, musicians and stagehands who were present for the performance...
...painter, so it is something of an irony that he is remembered chiefly for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...