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...strike for higher wages spread, stoppages and slowdowns seemed to succeed one another almost at random. The customs inspectors at London's Heathrow Airport returned to duty within 24 hours, but the rail strike that was supposed to last one day dragged on for four. Queen Elizabeth II herself had to rearrange a train trip to Wales (she went by plane instead). Scotland Yard warned travelers: "Do not come into London unless your presence is absolutely essential." In some areas there were already shortages of fruits and vegetables...
...Western Europe, the 20th century versions of the Renaissance wandering scholars can be found any morning, boarding Caravelles or Boeing 727s at Munich or Orly, Heathrow or Schiphol. These are the dark-suited businessmen and technocrats, many in their late 30s or early 40s, who serve the border-hopping new multinational corporations. Clutching identical document cases, conversing in any one of several languages-including English, the new Europe's universal medium-these passengers are often indistinguishable by nationality even when they reach for the newspapers being passed around by stewardesses...
Crimson crew co-captain Bill Mahoney stalked triumphantly through London's Heathrow Airport of December 21 st, carrying the Vile Festival Regatta Trophy back to Cambridge for the second year...
...Minister Edward Heath came to power two years ago. By midweek, when the Pentonville Five were released on a convenient legal technicality, upwards of 170,000 British workers had left their jobs in sympathy strikes that slowed or shut down mines and steel mills, virtually closed London's Heathrow airport, stopped most of London's busses and for five full days halted Fleet Street's presses. At week's end angry dockers, shouting "We want work! We want work!," voted for an indefinite strike that promised to cripple Britain's ports, its already fragile economy...
...Storm clouds hung low over London's Heathrow Airport when the "Eurocrat Special," a British European Airways Trident jet with 118 people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...