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THREE INCHES is such a wretched height to be: Exactly halfway through the film. ( Elvis: That's the Way It Is. ) At midpoint. That is to say, at the very heart of the matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high...
...Retirement. The pact provides a first-year wage increase of just over 13%, or 50? an hour, for a typical assembler now earning $3.80. The raise is a compromise; the union had wanted 61.5? per hour and the company, whose last pre-strike offer was 38?, went more than halfway in meeting the union demand. The union settled for considerably lower guaranteed raises in the second and third years: 3% annually, or an average of 14? per hour. The figure is consistent with U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock's contention that future wage raises can be kept in line with...
...interested. So the night of the speech, Mem Hall was surrounded by about 1500 protesters and Wallace started speaking. The troopers were standing off in the background with their shiny pistols hitched to their hips and were getting a little worried now because the boos were growing louder. About halfway through, one starts coming over to me looking like he wants to shoot his way out. But he says, 'Mr. Tonis, ah believe we'd be interested in takin' a look at those tunnels you mentioned...
Spengler had left Seals behind about halfway through the course. Once again, he finished all alone in first place. So far this season, no runner has been able to push Spengler at the finish...
...project designed to stop pollution of the Charles by constructing a relief sewage system is scheduled to begin early this Spring. The digging will extend from Pleasant Street, halfway between Peabody Terrace and the B.U. Bridge, to Plympton Street along the river. It will not be completed until the spring...