Word: specializes
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...POGO SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pogo and his pals from the Okefenokee Swamp decide that every day should be a holiday and start things off by throwing a surprise birthday party for Porky Pine...
...Administration last week came up with the first presidential proposal advanced for bringing farm workers under a national labor relations law. One much-discussed approach would simply put agriculture under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, which has covered industrial workers since 1935. Because farm labor presents special problems, however, the Administration asked for a separate, presidentially appointed Farm Labor Relations Board. "There are unique characteristics about the agricultural setting," said Labor Secretary George Shultz. "There is no great pattern. You'd have a lot to learn. The board could feel their way and develop something that...
Undeterred, an estimated 15,000 history buffs and railroad fans showed up in Promontory last weekend for a centennial re-enactment of the last-spike ceremony; 81 of them paid $995 apiece for a round-trip ride from New York to Utah on a special train hauled by steam locomotive as far as Kansas City, where a mammoth Union Pacific diesel took over for the long pull across the Rocky Mountains. U.P. President Ed Bailey arrived in a private car hitched to a passenger train, but some of his vice presidents chose a faster way. They arrived from Omaha...
...system of grandiose superlatives. First conceived in 1957, BART is primarily funded by a $792 million bond issue passed in 1962 by San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. When inflated costs and design improvements necessitated an additional $150 million this year, the California legislature imposed a special half-cent hike in the three counties' state sales tax. This makes BART the largest locally financed public works project in U.S. history. It will also be the world's first fully automated rapid transit system and have the longest (800 ft.) subway station...
...town board of aldermen. Giduz is a liberal on race issues and supports the town's open housing ordinance. He manages the University of North Carolina alumni magazine; Lee is head of employee relations at Duke University in nearby Durham. Lee is not unaware of his special position. "I'll be walking a tightrope," he says. "I could be slaughtered from both sides: by the white racists or the black militants...