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...strikers, as stubborn and high-spirited a bunch as ever hit the bricks, did not, of course, concede defeat. Despite the overwhelming Government pressure, they continued to picket airports from LGA (La Guardia) to LAX (Los Angeles International), rallying behind their bearded, owlish-looking president Robert E. Poli in an unusual show of solidarity. Poli, 44, a former controller himself, called the Administration's actions "the most blatant form of union-busting I have ever seen." Vowed he: "It will not end the strike...
...they are not enough to turn off the current of this newest electronic revolution. Even the biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have seen the future, and it glows." -By J.D. Reed. Reported...
...order to get their jobs, feed their families, heat their homes and all those other little niceties. It is also true that the strike--and, the threat of strike--are the only power the laborers have. Public sector strikes are far from uncommon; what is new is the stubborn obstinance of Reagan, or for that matter Providence mayor Buddy Cianci, who has fired his garbagemen. In most cases, a strike by public employees brings both sides to the bargaining table, and certainly the controllers have indicated their willingness to work with a mediator. But Reagan is going...
...fund agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, which try to check pollution and the spread of carcinogens. And he berates the public for persistently ignoring sound advice on how to eat and live healthfully. But he reserves his strongest criticism for industries like the food industry, for its stubborn refusal to stop polluting and tampering chemically with its products. He notes, 'No fewer than 14 of the 16 approved food dyes of 1946 were banned as of 1980 on the ground that they were carcinogens. It seems clear that consumers are being asked to jeopardize their health in order...
Those demons are stubborn, and the getaway referred to in the title of the new album is, he says, "an escape from fear." If Jeffreys seems to be more haunted than he should be, that may also be because he got a double dose of the fears. That's a lot, even for a mystery...