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Police entered the strike center in the steelwork's pressing department at 2 a.m. Only hours earlier, the strike committee, which said it represented 15,000 of the 32,000 employees, was told it would have its first talks in a week with management...
Reagan flew on to Detroit, traditional site of Labor Day speeches by Democratic candidates, and visited nearby Allen Park to grill sausages in the backyard of Emil Petri, a steelworker (and a Republican) who had invited over 20 neighbors to meet the candidate. Many of the guests were laid-off autoworkers and steelwork ers, the kind of blue-collar Democrats Reagan hopes to lure away from Carter...
Last week's counter-protesters in New York showed an almost mystical respect for the flag: decals bedecked the helmets of construction workers: one skyscraper going up on Broadway sprouted flags by the dozens on its steelwork, including an immense Old Glory lit up at night. Said John D'Anella, 57, an RCA technician: "Maybe the students are smarter than we are, but they have no right to burn down buildings. We love our flag. We love our country. If they destroy the flag, they are destroying our way of life." Across the generation gap, Tom Woods...
Workmen have finished putting up the steelwork for an 11-floor addition to the Medical School's Kresge Center for Environmental Health...
...more than $5,000,000 worth of industrial exhibit space has been rented, multimillion-dollar pavilions are on the drawing boards (General Motors is already committed to an exhibit). The tab for the Unisphere-the fair's theme symbol (it resembles an under-construction earth with only the steelwork in place)-has been picked up by U.S. Steel. Seventy-five percent of the state and federal area has been allocated (conspicuously absent: a big bloc of Western states loyal to the Seattle Fair, at which, incidentally, the New York Fair will have an exhibit). Says the Seattle Fair...