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...HEADED for the seawall, now totally black and foggy. A dark black shape moved in the darkness against the wall. "Francois?" But it was an old man, perhaps from the next town, on his way home by the shortest route. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, avez-vous vu un petit homme bossu qui courait... have you seen a little hunchback running along the wall?" The man stumbled back into the dark, changing his path a little--"Non, non, non..." --and vanished...
Heath's actions have already caused hardship among Britain's working class, which averages the longest hours per week (44.1) and the shortest vacation per year (twelve days) of any nation in the European Community. Reduced paychecks simply would not stretch to meet mortgage, food and time payments. "One minute we was a normal person," said Birmingham Shop Steward John Joynson. "Now the whole world is turned upside down." The number of emigration applications of Britons asking to leave the country has soared...
Dartmouth is running on a new, reputedly shorter course this year. It will be "the shortest we will have run on all year," McCurdy said. "I don't know what this will mean to us, except that it ought to put speed at a premium...
...clock in tense and sometimes sulfurous sessions, weary negotiators for the Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers last week welded together a new three-year work agreement. The two sides shook hands just two days after the union had called a strike, making it one of the shortest nationwide walkouts in U.A.W. history. If, as expected, the deal wins approval in a rank-and-file vote that ends this week, the way will be clear for Chrysler to resume operations almost immediately. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock scarcely concealed his glee in pronouncing the settlement "precedent setting," an assessment...
...duration of last week's walkout against the Chrysler Corporation, the baby of the Big Three auto manufacturers, did challenge the record books: It was the shortest in UAW history. In comparison to past UAW actions, the cost of the shut-down to Chrysler was inconsequential...