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...Carter Administration's wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots...
...three sales of new wide-bodied planes. Indeed, since last year, it has sold almost as many wide-bodies as Boeing and more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard Lathière: "Three years ago, there were three major companies in the [jumbo] market-Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. Today there are two-Boeing and Airbus...
...when Jackson just happened to meet the premier boxing afficionado in New England--Harvard alum Peter Fuller (of Cadillac fame)--at a meeting of the Visiting Committee on Athletics. A start-up grant from the Fuller Foundation and advertising sponsorships gave Jackson the operating expense money needed to haul in the Boston Garden's portable boxing ring for tonight's affair...
...Perini Corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...
...billions for aid to Egypt and Israel. Says a Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide: "There's a very basic feeling that this is a worthwhile investment for peace, but that can easily change. We are only at the beginning of what promises to be a long haul." He notes that "our mail has been running heavily against appropriating those aid funds...