Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transit-terminal royalties that it pays to Syria by a hefty 50%, to about $42 million. Also, it paid retroactive fees back to Jan. 1, 1966, of $14 million. l.P.C. lost its bid to cut the featherbedded work force down to 1,000 from 3,400 (hired to repair the pipeline blown up by Syria during the Suez crisis...
Into the echoing marble depths of Peking's Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication...
...most Harvard people talk of University politics means talk of battles for tenure and academic policy, but in certain parts of the University--its warehouses, supply offices, repair shops, and personnel offices--Harvard politics means something else. Harvard has nearly 1500 unionized employees, for them Harvard politics means the intricate and exciting politics that goes on in their unions...
...outcry mounted-until Clay finally heard it. In an interview, he tried to repair his image by apologizing for "making the ring a speaking rostrum." Terrell, he said, was "a real man." Later, Clay had a substantial piece of evidence on his side: movies of the fight showed that the only foul punches were thrown by the blinded Terrell. By week's end Clay had regained some of his old pre-Muslim composure. Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, he was asked whether he was by any chance in love. Replied Cassius coolly: "Not with anybody else...
Using the pagers are thousands of doctors, construction bosses, executives, real estate salesmen and repair men. Undertakers in Chicago contact freelance embalmers by radio pager, and in Miami funeral directors are paged at graveside the same way. Off the Atlantic coast, fishing craft without ship-to-shore rigs are called in by radio pagers when storms threaten. In Denver, one motel-maintenance engineer packs a pager, and an executive beeps his daughter when he thinks that she ought to start home from an evening date...