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...NIGHTWORK by IRWIN SHAW 344 pages. Delacorte...
Douglas Grimes is the unlikely hero of Shaw's high entertainment, Nightwork. A young pilot prematurely grounded by an eye ailment, Grimes answers the musical question: "What if $100,000 should fall into my lap?" That is almost literally what happens to him in the most improbable of settings - the St. Augustine Hotel (semibitter religious joke here), a Manhattan charnel house where Grimes works as night clerk...
...week) 2−Curtain, Christie (1) 3−The Greek Treasure, Stone (4) 4−Humboldt'sGift, Bellow (5) 5−Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Ressner(6) 6−Shogun, Clavell (3) 7−The Choirboys, Wambaugh (8) 8−The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (7) 9−Nightwork, Shaw 10−In the Beginning, Potok
...diet had to be provided for them after the contractors found they lacked the stamina for an eight-hour day. A month before the Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing to complete the project ahead of schedule and collect a $6,000,000 bonus, which the Atkinson consortium counted on when it set its price-$20 million under the next lowest...
...unions' most paradoxical argument is that changes in the present rules would actually cost the railroads more than they claim they could save. Railroad workers, whose wages average $2.47 an hour, are paid less than workers in many major U.S. industries. If roads paid overtime, differentials for nightwork. severance pay and other benefits, say the unions, it would cost them $648 million more a year...