Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught in the grip of Murphy's Law: if anything can go wrong, it will. They are beset by production cutbacks and layoffs, Government pressure to restrain price increases while spending heavily to comply with antipollution rules, and the industry's first sizable strike (by iron-ore workers) since 1959. Executives have also begun squabbling among themselves. Last week Armco Steel not only refused to go along with an industry price boost of 6% on structural steel, but announced that in the lower Midwest and Gulf Coast regions it would offer deeper discounts...
Many more mills may close-and much earlier-if the strike of 15,000 iron-ore workers that began Aug. 1 drags on. Though the industry is governed by a much praised agreement that bans strikes over "economic" issues, the miners contend that their demand for incentive pay (mainly bonuses for exceeding production norms) is a "local" issue, about which strikes are permitted. For now, mills can feed their blast furnaces with stockpiled ore, but if the strike continues another three or four months-and it could-they would start to run short...
...author gives the puzzle to retired Chief of Detectives Edward X. ("Iron Balls") Delaney, who spied out the sinner in Sanders' The First Deadly Sin. Delaney's feet are flat, but his intellect is fully arched; there is no doubt he will track down the killer. That certainty is the only real shortcoming of this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney...
Procedure The sides remain deeply split on the mechanics of Geneva. Begin demands face-to-face Arab-Israeli talks without any preliminary negotiations. The Arabs want ample advance negotiations, with the U.S. acting in an honest broker role to iron out the tough issues ahead of time and thus avoid a calamitous breakdown. Vance largely agrees. Said he last week: "I myself believe the more that can be resolved [before Geneva], the better we will...
...speculators would bet their Nobels on such musings. But Berry tosses aution to the solar wind. In two or threem centuries, he believes, a future NASA could launch a great fleet of robot spaceships to attract bits of free-floating iron in near by interstellar space, like children herding filings with magnets. Eventually so much matter would be gathered up that ,he particles would begin attracting one another by their mutual gravity and compress themselves into a black hole of some ten solar masses. The purpose of this iron sun? To provide instantaneous transportation across the heavens for anyone brave...