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Last week's Washington hearings showed how a small but powerful union can sandbag management. Ostracized by the other newspaper unions, the New York Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union (4,500 members) controls a vital link in the chain of distribution: its drivers pick up bundled papers at the loading docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably...
...poet, he claims to be part of Chinese traditional writing, but his work is predominantly influenced by Ezra Pound, whose phrases and rhythms recur continually in Wang's work. His poetic judgement seems questionable: "Elvis Presley is a greater poet than Carl Sandbag (sic)," he says...
...applied only to athletics. Many departments of the University that make an annual or periodic solicitation have been asked to hold back this year in deference to the larger and more important need of the Program for Harvard College. We're trying to cut down efforts to sandbag Harvard alumni...
Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
...cables led out of the main body of the tunnel to a separate chamber where they were linked to two East German cables and a third used by the Russians. What was at the American end? The newsmen were not permitted to know. As they crawled westward, a sandbag barrier barred the way, its purpose emphasized by a sign reading in English and German: "You are now entering the American sector...