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...coffee around a picnic table inside a gas station located off the Bellefonte State College exit off Interstate-80. There, to their backs, stand a full barrage of vending machines along with racks of groceries. In front of them, through the breath-fogged, plate glass windows, another carload of home-bound college kids unloads, and the men stop talking, bracing themselves for the next invasion of brash, Harvard-educated Southerners, Westerners or Midwesterners...
Work Force. Their future in Portugal is very much in doubt. The home-bound exodus could hardly have occurred at a worse time for the country's faltering economy. The country's work force is only about 3 million, and unemployment has been rising rapidly. Hundreds of small businesses have closed, and large companies are not expanding. Says one Lisbon businessman with companies in Africa: "We could not employ in Portugal more than a fraction of our people from down there who have asked us for jobs...
Workers on the nationalized railways struck for seven days, halting 60% of France's trains and stranding hundreds of families home-bound from vacation. The trainmen finally settled for about a two-hour reduction in their 46-hour work week. In Paris, a wildcat strike of subway workers brought the underground Metro's 17 lines to a virtual standstill. When bus drivers joined in, as so often before, Paris became a city of pedestrians and monumental traffic jams. Post-office workers served notice that they intend to walk off their jobs next week...
...Town. All sales will be from newsstands; there will be no home delivery. Which means that headlines will have to catch the eye of the rushing subway rider and home-bound commuter. But Conniff is confident that he will be able to keep stories from being played out of proportion to what they are worth. After all, his only direct competition will come from the Post, with its predictable liberal approach to any issue. The Post, says Conniff, should serve "to keep us from getting stuffy. But hell, last week the Post had two-TWO-editorials on U Thant. Tell...
...other side of the Potomac, at Civil Defense headquarters, an official first heard about the blackout from a home-bound employee. When it did swing into action, the unwieldy agency determined that...