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...your ordinary cost-plagued, beleagured defense producer, however. In 1971, the federal government bailed out this dying giant with a $250 million loan guarantee authorization, of which $195 million is still outstanding. Receiving 62 per cent of its total sales from the government, the Pentagon's second largest contractor for fiscal year 1974 and number one during the five years prior to that, the military-industrial establishment found Lockheed too prominent--and too entrenched--to permit it to collapse...
...cook's union has about 550 members, many of whom work part-time. It is Harvard's second largest union in terms of membership...
...round of street fighting in Beirut was touched off by an argument over a pretty girl. This time the tension was increased by a gasoline shortage resulting from the violence in Tripoli, which cut off most of Lebanon from the country's largest refinery. Some scenes-the sight of Cardin-clad gentlemen siphoning off other people's tanks, for instance-would have been hilarious except for the potential violence. Sure enough, fistfights and near riots eventually erupted. There was a shootout between a gas station owner and a group of armed right-wing Christian Phalangists over fuel allocations...
...western half of the island-second largest in the world, after Greenland-is known as Irian Jaya and is now part of Indonesia...
Teachers' strikes ended on uncertain notes in two of the nation's largest public school systems last week. In New York, 55,000 teachers returned to their classes with a settlement that left almost everyone unhappy. In Chicago, 27,000 teachers went back to school after the board of education agreed to give them millions of dollars more than it had in its budget...