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...Quebec City's famed Chateau Frontenac hotel. Significantly, Duplessis' closest crony, Attorney General Antoine Rivard. faded fast as a candidate. In a deadlock between Montreal and Quebec City factions, Dark Horse Barrette, a Joliette (pop. 19,000) insurance broker who still carries a union card as a machinist, emerged as the com promise...
...little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head of a family, and there...
When Donald Kleinschmidt, 29, a machinist, sat down to dinner in Haddon Heights, N.J. last Tuesday, his wife Margaret had filet of flounder for the family-twins Donald and Donna, 6, David, 4, and Dale, 3. Half an hour after dinner, the boys felt sick. Donald and Dale were the worst. Their father called for an ambulance, and their mother rode with them to Camden's Cooper Hospital. Dale had turned blue, and died on arrival. Resident Thomas L. Singley Jr., 27, concentrated on Donald, also blue. But 100% oxygen did no good, though his breathing was strong enough...
...trick was done by inventing an "English-like language" that any good machinist can learn and that a computer can translate into the numerical language of the machines' tapes. A draftsman makes a detailed drawing of the part wanted. A part programer studies it carefully and writes orders for the machine tool in APT (Automatically Programed Tool) language. This language is not decorative. A simple example...
Vagueness v. Vulnerability. The second case was brought by Marcos Gonzales, a machinist living in San Francisco. In 1950 Gonzales got into a quarrel with International Association of Machinists officials and was expelled. In plain violation of NLRB rules the I.A.M. hiring hall refused to refer him to another job. The California courts gave Gonzales $7,500 in back pay, $2,500 in punitive damages, and the Supreme Court upheld the awards...