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PATCO's aim was to highlight a shortage of controller manpower. Because of this dearth, controllers often have had to work ten-hour shifts and sixday weeks, which can be pretty grueling when one is juggling 20 planes per minute. Typical salaries start at $6,321 and stop at $15,828. Jets on radar screens show up so indistinctly that one controller literally died of fright. Says Michael Rock, chairman of PATCO: "It seems ridiculous that NASA can track a needle and we can't even make out two giant jets if they are closer than a mile...
...American Trial Lawyers Association notes, "the glory of the jury is its beautiful lawlessness." It represents "the yeasty independence of the average man over officialdom." Perhaps mindful of such thoughts, Judge Lurie decided to give Solana the benefit of his doubt. He declared a mistrial and will start all over again with a new jury...
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...
...space, especially valuable mid-city space, should be active, taking on shapes, not just lie dead beneath pedestrians. Cambridge must fight to be more than the sum of its traffic patterns, and more than just the city that surrounds Harvard, and for a start Brattle Square must be turned into the vital informal civic center and outdoor room that...
...platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...