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...traffic on the Radcliffe Quad will be a little lighter this fall as the 'Cliffe field hockey team moves to greener pastures across the river...
...auto negotiations are almost the last big U.S. labor talks for 1973, but next year union leaders will negotiate new contracts covering about 3.4 million workers in major industries. That makes the bargaining calendar lighter than this year, when 4.6 million unionists had contracts expire, but still far from a snap. The contracts to be signed in 1974 include those covering the steel industry, one of the traditional pacesetters for U.S. wages...
...Seine water per second and puts it through a series of preliminary steps not unlike those in any U.S. water plant. First comes a "scrubbing" with ferric chloride and other chemicals; then the heavier particles of dirt are allowed to settle to the bottom of tanks while the lighter ones are removed by filtering. Elsewhere in the plant, in twelve huge stainless-steel containers, ozone is produced by bombarding dried, refrigerated and pressurized air with up-to-20,000-volt bolts of electricity...
...prevents election landslides by a bare majority. It avoids the need for primary elections, in which voting nearly always tends to be lighter...
...Brandt visit had some lighter moments. The Chancellor slipped off for some fishing aboard the U.S. Naval Academy commandant's yacht. The only catch was a small rockfish landed by a U.S. protocol officer. The next day, when Nixon received him at the White House, Brandt complained: "There is only one fish in the Chesapeake Bay." Nixon, who had delivered his traumatic Watergate speech the night before, was in an effusive, bantering mood. To the delight of photographers, Nixon took Brandt by the arm several times to change his position "so we will have very good pictures...