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John L. Lewis, whose life has been one long noisy scrap, reached his 70th birthday this week, bellowing and posturing through the toughest scrap of his life. He had been unable to wring concessions from a group of coal operators as stubborn and tough as he. Their quarrel threatened to bring the country's economy to its knees...
...fiction and history, all in his "spare" time. His fellow doctors ''used to think I was a little cracked, but they've learned to tolerate me." He admits that his patients often have trouble when they try to read Poet Williams. Says a patient in one scrap of Williams' poems: "Geeze, Doc, I guess it's all right but what the hell does it mean...
British Captain Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...
Could the price rise be justified by higher costs? Two freight-rate increases had boosted the cost of steel's raw materials; another boost in coal prices was in prospect. But scrap, which is a major cost in making steel, was selling at an average of only $27.25 a ton, compared with $43 a year ago. As for the new pension program-U.S. Steel officials could not, or would not, say what it would cost the company in the first year (guesses by outsiders ran as high as $80 million a year...
...triangle of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. In the next two years, their hard-hitting editorial campaigns on local issues earned them a reputation as fearless crusaders, pushed their circulation up from 2,000 to 10,258 and put them in the black. Fortnight ago, they got into their toughest scrap...