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...even Stan the Man can't give St. Louis the one thing it really wants -an end to the strike. Nor, it seems, can negotiators for the striking Teamsters union and the papers. The main issue is automation-a new multimillion-dollar Post-Dispatch printing plant has made obsolete the jobs of some of the 32 Teamsters who load papers on and off delivery trucks. Last week the Globe-Democrat went to court to seek a settlement, and Mayor John Poelker said he would step in to mediate the strike. Meanwhile the readers wait...
...listings will also alert you to lesser known, more talented rock and sometimes jazz performers who rarely get the attention they deserve. Honest-to-goodness folkies and bluegrass players have more musical talent than all of Alice Cooper's cobras laid end to end. 'Tis better to overlook a multimillion-making electronic group than an exciting unknown playing a small club...
...Bridge, which opened last June and provides a second, four-mile-long bridge for traffic across the bay, and an interstate-highway bridge over Baltimore harbor. The two projects were financed by a $220 million bond issue approved by the state legislature in 1967, but both ran into multimillion-dollar cost overruns?an extra $40 million for the bay bridge alone. Consulting firm for both projects: J.E. Greiner Co., which is currently forbidden by the state department of transportation to work on public Maryland projects, largely because of complaints about the cost overruns on the bay span...
...addition, surprise blizzards this spring cut a multimillion-dollar chunk out of livestock herds in the Rockies and Midwest. Iowa alone suffered a loss of 100,000 cattle and 44,000 hogs, worth $30 million. Snowfall and tornadoes cut peach crops in Georgia and South Carolina by 50% or more...
...potentially explosive investigation began in February with a grand-jury indictment of a New Jersey talent agent named Pasquale Falcone, who has represented such Columbia moneymakers as Sly Stone, Lynn Anderson and Tommy Cash. Indicted with him was Columbia Receptionist Francine Berger. Both were charged with involvement in a multimillion-dollar heroin-smuggling operation. As federal agents delved into Falcone's activities, they discovered that he had a sideline: a fictitious trucking firm that allegedly billed Columbia Records for services that were never performed. Among Falcone's papers, investigators found the name of David Wynshaw, director of artist...