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...Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat." The company's semiskilled assemblers now make $13.23 an hour, 6 cents an hour less than their colleagues at GM and Ford. Management says it has already agreed to parity for its Canadian employees and plans to do the same in the U.S., but no final accord has been reached...
...unmanned vessel, named Angus, was dispatched to the depths to take high-quality still photographs that would complement Argo's videotapes. Acoustic transponders delineated the ship's massive profile. Each image proved more remarkable than the previous one. A small flagpole stretched forlornly from the tip of the bow. Lifeboat bays yawned, empty. Much of the Titanic was in "pristine" condition, but portions of the hull seemed to show the lethal gash inflicted by the iceberg, and the stern of the ship had been wrested from the main body. No human remains were seen. In one alarming incident, Argo scraped...
...women in first class escaped, nearly half of those in third class drowned. There was also an element of happenstance. Boat No. 1, which could have held 40 people, departed with only twelve. While John Jacob Astor went stoically to his death, Henry Sleeper Harper managed to find lifeboat room not just for himself but for his Pekingese, Sun Yat-sen, and an Egyptian dragoman he was bringing home on a whim. Benjamin Guggenheim changed into evening clothes for the occasion, and so did his valet. "We've dressed in our best," Guggenheim said, "and are prepared to go down...
...Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo of steel plate from Japan sank quickly...
...appearance 20 miles from the Cape Canaveral pad where he was first launched to prominence 21 years ago, he had a retort to Mondale written out: "For him to criticize me is a little like the first mate on the Titanic criticizing someone for going for a Lifeboat." He tagged Mondale as part of the Carter Administration that had given the country 21% interest rates and 17% inflation, leaving behind a deep economic mess. Glenn conceded that he had voted for some of Reagan's proposals in the Senate, but only after trying unsuccessfully to modify them. Said...