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...looks of the crowds during the first month of operation, the men of Restaurant Associates have done well. Like Anthony's Pier 4, no reservations are accepted and a wait of two hours is not unusual...
...general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship at San Diego for "counsel." When the carrier returned from maneuvers to pick them up, the men refused to board. They staged a second eight-hour sitdown on the pier, lifting their arms in black power salutes. They were finally taken off the ship's rolls and sent before captain's masts (naval disciplinary hearings...
Furor. Interestingly, it was Warner himself who delayed taking any action about the sitdown of the Constellation's crewmen on the San Diego pier, thereby making the Navy seem even more permissive. Zumwalt's staff claims that he was on the point of sending a formal written protest to Warner when the Secretary finally acted and had the men bused off to their trials. Nevertheless it will inevitably be Zumwalt who will be hurt by all the publicity...
...huge containers have been stolen. Large stretches of the waterfront are poorly policed because jurisdiction is splintered among the bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Waterfront Commission and a host of other agencies. Much of the work falls to private police hired by the pier owners, but many owners are afraid of reprisals from dock workers if they crack down on pilferage. Importers, exporters and wholesalers often fail to report thefts for fear of being hit by steep insurance-rate increases. Says a top shipping broker: "Any stevedore caught pilfering in Philadelphia or other ports...
...University of Cincinnati with a new, 717-seat auditorium. Then Corbett and his wife Patricia decided that the university's music complex needed a more intimate house alongside it. To open its acoustically superb 400-seat Patricia Corbett Theater, the university announced what seemed an unlikely production: Pier Francesco Cavalli's 321-year-old opera Calisto, which Conductor Raymond Leppard dusted off for Britain's Glyndebourne Festival in 1970. By last week, the little-known Calisto was the hottest ticket in town...