Word: strikebound
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...some 7,000,000 would-be passengers were grounded, delayed or forced to revise their plans. Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe. The only strikebound line that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move that added $1,000,000 a day to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches...
...most cases were abroad on vacation and found themselves stranded in Europe, unable to get home to the U.S. TWA helped out by offering them interest-free loans and by asking its overseas employees to open their homes to strandees. U.S. consulates certified that the travelers were strikebound in case bosses doubted them. Airlines and travel agents worked out intricate, substitute passages that sometimes involved taking a bus from one country to another in order to pick up a U.S.-bound flight...
NEWSPAPERS In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, the leaders of three striking New York newspaper unions took up positions in three separate rooms. Representatives of the strikebound World Journal Tribune publishing company were sequestered in still another. Mediators dashed from one group to the next. Chief Mediator David Cole did his desperate best to keep track of what was going on, but by week's end all the activity had produced little in the way of bargaining. "This is a strange kind of thing," complained Cole. "It doesn't seem to respond to ordinary techniques...
...World Series was over. The World's Fair had shut down. With the reappearance of strikebound newspapers, New Yorkers became interested again in their unceasingly intriguing city. In the last weeks before the Nov. 2 city election, they even started caring about their mayoral campaign. As beer drinkers on Third Avenue all agreed, it was a hard one to figure. In more fashionable circles, the word for the contest was "polyphyletic," or multi-ancestral-and it was still hard to figure...
Harvard's leading authorities on international affairs regard the New York Times' foreign reporting as the most accurate and comprehensive of any newspaper in the world. They consider the strikebound paper more competetent than Europe's major dailies in covering spot news and editing it objectively...