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...years younger than her husband), is smart, ambitious for both him and herself and experienced in the ways of politics. Although she sees herself more as "a Huck Finn" than "a Southern belle," her favorite fictional heroine is Scarlett O'Hara. "You saw what she did with that lumber company," Cornelia recently recalled. "When she had to, she took over that business and made a success of it. She made do for herself." In the face of her husband's probably permanent paralysis, Mrs. Wallace is determined to "make...
...seat-belt sign has flashed on, and the engines begin to whine as the big California-bound jet prepares to lumber out for takeoff at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Suddenly the pilot announces that there will be a half-hour delay. Reason: traffic is backed up on the runways. Later, flying over the Rockies, the passengers have more reason to gripe. The plane is being tossed by turbulence, but the pilot cannot avoid it because ground controllers have refused to let him change course in the jammed air corridors. Finally, as San Francisco Bay comes into...
...needed to deploy a minimum of 1,550 inspectors instead of the current 500. The Labor Department, working on a "worst-first" basis, is concentrating its inspectors on the policing of industries that have extremely high accident rates: longshoring, roofing and sheet metal, meat packing, mobile-home manufacturing and lumber and wood producing. Indeed, accidents are so common on the docks that, on the average, one out of every eight longshoremen a year suffers at least a temporarily disabling injury...
Died. Donald N. Pritzker, 39, president of Hyatt Corp., who, with his two brothers, father and uncle, built a small family law firm into a half-billion-dollar conglomerate of hotel, lumber, farm machinery, banking and mining interests; of a heart attack suffered while playing tennis; in Oahu, Hawaii...
...strawberries and avocados flown in for the occasion. They were tasty examples of Israel's flourishing fruit and vegetable exports and a subtle bid to increase her country's trade with Rumania, which now runs at a yearly rate of nearly $40 million, mostly in Rumanian meat, lumber and chemicals exchanged for Israeli potash, citrus fruits and textiles...