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Answers in Part. What accounts for labor's militancy? One reason is prosperity. In a time of low unemployment (now 3.8%), the worker commands a premium. Other goads are inflation and ever rising local and state taxes-not to mention the threat of a new 10% fed eral surtax (see following story). In their drive for higher wages, union members are rejecting one-seventh of the contracts accepted by their leaders...
Others kept working. Using computers, engineers calculated the rate at which the helium leak would decrease as pressure dropped. At Hughes Aircraft (Surveyor's designer and builder) and at a JPL test site, propulsion experts hurriedly put duplicate vernier engines through tests to determine their performance with low helium pressures. Feeding the results into computers, JPL scientists took less than 40 hours to work out a new and complex lunar landing sequence...
...critics of the war were shocked to discover that CRS has for two years been helping distribute U.S. surplus food to families of South Viet Nam's 700,000-member local militia, at the request of General William Westmoreland. Defending the arrangement, CRS officials pointed out that the low-paid militiamen are often away on duty and unable to provide sufficiently for their families. Because of the well-established Roman Catholic structure in Viet Nam, CRS is able to ensure that the food reaches the villages far more effectively than could Government agencies, such...
...four to six hours, says the center's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr. So, as soon as they are extracted, the center rushes them to nearby hospitals, notably Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where there are always patients whose platelet count has been cut dangerously low by the drugs needed to treat their leukemia. Still other clotting factors, such as those needed by hemophilia victims, are precipitated out and kept frozen. For a few rare cases, white blood cells are also extracted...
...merchandise," says Bonchy, "and to keep workers employed for a full year's production. It was an example set by my father and brother." Though 50% unionized, D. & H. Cohen Ltd. has never had a strike. Quality standards are Scottishly rigid. One West Indian store, which asked for low-priced kilts, received the typically brisk reply: "This is not in our line of production...