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...come forth to claim it. The 40,000 lbs. of marijuana-tightly packed in polyethylene and burlap and divided into roughly 45-lb. bales-and the erstwhile smugglers will be turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Colombian gold, which burns at such high heat that it can ruin conventional incinerators, will most probably become free fuel, stoked into the furnaces of Fort Lauderdale's power company to provide electricity...
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is pessimistic. Says he: "The players may have miscalculated the determination of the owners." A strike as devastating as the 13-day walkout in 1972 is possible. That would not only darken the future of baseball, but also ruin a perfectly glorious spring...
Work is still a profoundly respectable thing in America. Most Americans suffer a sense of loss, of diminution, even of worthlessness, if they are thrown out on the street. But the blow seldom carries the life-and-death implications it once had, the sense of personal ruin. Besides, the wild and notorious behavior of the economy takes a certain amount of personal shame out of joblessness; if Ford closes down a plant in New Jersey and throws 3,700 workers into the unemployment lines, the guilt falls less on individuals than on Japanese imports or American car design...
...have the Amoco chairman's own word that Swearingen is sympathetic to the poor. When asked by New York magazine in 1977 about the effect of high gasoline prices on lower income families, Swearingen replied, "I'm sympathetic to poor people, but for heaven's sake, let's not ruin our future to take care of a relatively few people....What is a man on relief doing owning an automobile? Let's not let our sympathies run away with...
...hard to take his gripes too seriously considering his outstanding objection is that classes are held on Saturday mornings. It will ruin my weekends, he moans. I can't stay out Friday nights. Of-course, if everyone is working as hard as he claims, they don't have time to go away anyway. And if they really have to leave, they can always cut a class...