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...missed a scheduled pay raise because of the freeze. While the President was quoting Mrs. Jones, she was listening to another speech: George Krajewski was proposing marriage to her in front of the TV set, which was turned off. Mrs. Jones accepted. Krajewski, a foreman at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, gave her a diamond ring midway through the President's peroration, and she never heard herself quoted. "I told the President I would be losing about $100 a month because of the freeze," she said later. "But I am willing to sacrifice that...
...well into middle age. What distinguishes him from the other super sealords is the incredible pace at which he has expanded his fleet. With a personal fortune estimated by his business associates at anywhere from $300 million to $800 million, Pao does not ever have to go near a shipyard again. Yet he shows no sign of relaxing. After announcing his latest orders last week in New York, Pao hopped a plane for Tokyo to look for shipyards interested in another maxi-order...
Leave Her Alone. Nixon also pursued the independent Mrs. Smith, who had opposed the plane earlier but had voted for it this year in committee. He sent her a "Dear Margaret" letter announcing that he was "pleased" to rescind an order by the Johnson Administration closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the Maine-New Hampshire border. With cool class, Mrs. Smith showed the letter to newsmen, and blandly said that she was "very much gratified" by the President's decision...
Risks of Revenge. In both Britain and Ulster, a wave of revulsion followed the murders. Some 3,000 Protestant and Catholic shipyard workers united to march through Belfast's streets in an expression of outrage at the crime and sympathy for the slain Scots' families. Ulster's Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark, trying to cool off Protestant hotheads bent on reprisals, warned of "the appalling consequences of murder and outrage, the risks of revenge and the chain reaction that follows...
...separate accounts, the worst killing occurred in Gdynia. Workers on their way to the shipyard were stopped by militiamen and ordered to return home. When they refused, the soldiers opened fire, killing several of the crowd. Infuriated workers draped the body of a slain youth in a Polish flag and carried it toward City Hall. There militiamen fired again. Official reports said 21 were killed, but eyewitnesses said: "They have made a mistake; they have left off the nought at the end of the figure...