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...tables. At last week's opening of negotiations covering 600,000 postal workers, whose contract with the Government-owned U.S. Postal Service expires July 21, union leaders insisted on higher pay increases and a stronger cost-of-living escalator clause to protect their members against future inflation. Five railway unions have rejected a hefty 41% wage and benefit boost offered by management, forcing the Ford Administration to order a 60-day postponement of a threatened nationwide rail strike...
Barnard noted that Leonard Goss, 47, a Cape Town railway worker who received a second heart early this year, is back at work and doing well. At least four others share Barnard's confidence. They are planning to have the same operation as soon as suitable donors can be found...
...polio during World War II, the bulky, bearded Flanders performed from a wheelchair, while the spindly, cricketlike Swann hunched over his piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences in Britain and elsewhere for twelve years with songs such as Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and I'm a Gnu, until the pair split in 1966 to pursue separate careers...
...result must be among the most imposing "homemade" sculpture produced by a young American since the early '60s, when Di Suvero was making his big constructions of railway ties, dock piles, chains and tires. Instead of effacing their weight, Buchman's sculptures proclaim it: heaviness, the state of being dug from and bound to the earth, is part of their meaning. The stone is not carved. The lumps stand as they came from the rock pile, craggy and rhino-gray: one thinks of them as things, not as material, and each sculpture becomes a kind of frozen juggling...
...Railway Association (a federal agency set up to restructure rail service in the Midwest and Northeast) for "intentional neglect" of its financial woes...