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...Peoples, chief shop steward for the Harvard dining halls and one of the members of the negotiating committee, asked the shop stewards of each dining hall to consult with the kitchen workers to draw up a list of terms they wanted included in a new contract...
...splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took a long shot: Roger Gicquel, a relatively obscure former airline steward, failed actor and radio-station executive who had never been in front of a TV camera...
...centuries, opera librettists snubbed The Duchess of Malfi. The cut was unkind, since her tragic tale is the very stuff of grand opera. John Webster's play, published in 1623, is admirably lurid and complicated. There is the Duchess's secret and forbidden marriage to her steward Antonio. There are her two evil brothers: Ferdinand, who is driven mad by incestuous passion for her; and the Cardinal, who schemes to be Pope. After her marriage is discovered, the Duchess is imprisoned and tormented by madmen. At the end, everyone dies violently...
Flying high over Germany on his recent state visit, Jimmy Carter received an urgent message from the steward of Air Force One-three of the President's aides said they had to see him immediately. The President agreed. What now? What new crisis could have arisen...
Arriving spang on time at 7:50 p.m. in New Orleans' Union Terminal, the Crescent disgorges its passengers, many in search of taxis and buses and busses. An unhurried few, passengers and employees, linger on the platform to shake hands and say goodbye. Steward Steve Cosmos refuses a tip. "See you in Mexico," says the retired railroad man. "God bless!" says Luther King. That night, in the opulence of the Pontchartrain Hotel, the immobile voyager cannot sleep. He misses the creaks and bleeps and wee-hour talk of yesterday. Or maybe yesteryear? - Michael Demarest