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...loyal and effective union trouble-shooter for 30 years, Yablonski jolted the ossified U.M.W. hierarchy last summer when he mounted the first insurgency since 1926. Unrest had been simmering among the rank and file, who complained that union headquarters in Washington had ignored their demands for stricter health and safety procedures. Articulating these complaints, Yablonski attracted, among others, the support of Walter Reuther, Ralph Nader and John D. Rockefeller...
...Straight Shooter...
Hasky captain Dave Poile, perhaps the best stick-handler and shooter in recent Northeastern history, put Harvard behind after 13 minutes of play, and the Huskies' rough. collapsing defensive style preserved the lead until early in the second period...
...scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble-shooter in the longstanding oil dispute. His success in that job led to his appointment as Dulles' Under Secretary...
...Terribles were undaunted; they had a secret weapon that had never failed to take the day-marbles hand-carved from the finest porcelain commodes. Toucan Captain Len Smith, 50, winner of nine world championships, explained that only porcelain gives the "tolley" (shooter) the proper heft and feel. Every Toucan tolley is custom carved to fit the knuckle, but none has a diameter greater than .75 in.-the dimension prescribed by the British Marbles Board of Control...