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Faced with the threat of a major civil uprising, Northerners last week began to look for compromise. Nigeria's Chief Justice Adetokunbo Ademola sped off to Ibadan to try to hammer a coalition government under Akintola together. For Awolowo's cheated followers, coalition left much to be desired, but it would at least be better than nothing. "Any region that does not ally itself with the North will surely fade," said one realistic loser last week. "If we remain in the opposition for five more years, we shall be relegated to the burying grounds...
...baskets, waded in the Unisphere fountain, and shinned up the 20-ft. poles near the United Nations Plaza to capture the flags. One man completely gutted a statue of King Tut near the Egyptian Pavilion, another attacked a copy of an ancient vase outside the Greek Pavilion with a hammer, while hundreds of people watched in silence. Everything from saltcellars to cameras was stolen as souvenirs...
...profits that will be made from lunar exploration. Although the first American will not set foot on the moon until the end of the decade at best, U.S. firms are already preparing the tools and machines that the lunanauts will need when they get there, from a simple hammer to chip rock samples to a trackless train to carry them over the vast, hostile lunar plain...
...Westinghouse and Northrop more than $500,000 each for a 100-ft. drill. Ralph Stone & Co. of Los Angeles is spending $100,000 to develop vacuum containers to carry rock samples back to earth. Under an $88,000 contract, Martin is also making lunar tools, including a lightweight geological hammer, a hand lens and a scale to weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny TV cameras to transmit live pictures of exploration back to earth. To shelter the moon explorers, Lockheed is planning surface living quarters in sausage-shaped tanks, and General...
Murphy and Powers both agree that the unions must get together and hammer out common bargaining positions. Powers is about to propose a council of the craft unions that will have a veto vote on strikes; if a majority disapproves, a member union will not be able to strike. Yet even as he makes such conciliatory suggestions, Powers is stepping up his demands. What he wants now is a guarantee from each of the papers that it will take on employees displaced by other papers because of merger or automation. The publishers have sworn to resist. "Labor and management," said...