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...fateful collision could have been foreseen by any air controller, without even a glance at the ghostly blips on his radarscope. Like a Piper Cub lost in a thunderstorm, the tiny Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization?representing 85% of the 17,500 federal employees who direct the nation's air traffic?veered wildly off course. It flew into a rage against its employer, launching an illegal federal strike. An angry Ronald Reagan, revving up the full jumbo-jet power of the U.S. Government, deliberately bore down on the defiant union. The result was inevitable: the controllers crashed, the U.S. kept...
...back together again in Ashland, Ky. (pop. 29,000), for the third annual reunion of the Negro Leagues. It was the first time that some of them had seen one another since the old days, and they had a lot of catching up to do. The splendid second baseman Piper Davis fired a ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when he played for the Birmingham Black Barons, had turned 64 this year and was obviously pleased with himself. "Boy, I still got it," he said...
Typist-clerks ($14,300) and grounds keepers ($17,524) are also laboring equally, the study concluded. Says striking Typist-Clerk Jan Piper, 37: "I feel I shouldn't have to be a grounds keeper to make an adequate living...
...British army helicopters clattered anxiously overhead, some 50,000 Northern Irish Catholics lined the streets of Belfast last week for an emotional ceremony that was part funeral, part political demonstration. A lone piper led the way as thousands of mourners followed a Daimler hearse bearing a coffin draped in the green, white and orange flag of the Irish Republic. Beside the hearse strode seven hooded members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, dressed in mottled green combat jackets and berets...
...wrote the book on boxing-the way he stood, the way he blocked shots was beautiful. I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest." Louis was to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at the request of President Reagan, the dancing done, the piper paid in full...