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...Another Loop. The nation's 80,000 coal miners fared nearly as well last week -and with Pay Board approval at that. By a vote of 10 to 3, the board decided that a coal contract calling for increases in wages and benefits of at least 15% in the first year was not "unreasonably inconsistent" with its 5.5% guideline. Members made that decision in spite of the fact that the contract's welfare package was higher than even union negotiators had first expected. It was the board's first major wage decision, and the surprise...
...them pass on the expense of the contract to customers. Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson promised to examine the owners' additional costs "very closely," but coal users are almost certainly in for a hefty jump in the fuel's price-and the nation for one more loop in the wage-price spiral. The fact that it will be due largely to the cave-in of the Pay Board's business members, who are usually regarded as presidential allies, presents Nixon with a challenge almost as troubling as Meany...
...standing there, 66 have been demolished, mostly by developers who wanted to replace them with more profitable office buildings or parking garages. Some important Sullivan structures remain-the Carson Pirie Scott department store, for example. But wreckers are now at work on the last Sullivan office building in the Loop, the 13-story Old Stock Exchange, a landmark completed in 1894. Said a special mayor's committee: "It was economically and structurally unfeasible to continue to use the building." Mayor Richard Daley added that more than 20 developers had been contacted and none were willing to take over...
...enormous and complicated. In the Loop, Chicago's downtown area, tall office buildings contain and amplify urban sounds like echo chambers so that the din occasionally reaches 90 decibels, enough to cause permanent damage to hearing in 10% of the people who might be exposed to it for eight hours a day. The slums, with their high population density and aging, ill-maintained automobiles, are often as noisy. Loudest of all is swinging Rush Street, where night after night the go-go clubs and rock bands blare out music measured at more than 115 decibels, the threshold of pain...
Leaving a bicycle unwatched anywhere near the Square is begging trouble. Local bike thieves, who prefer fancy 10-speed models, use bolt cutters to slice any chain light enough to carry. Provided you loop the chain around both wheels and the frame, a heavy chain is a good precaution...