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...permanently assigning an additional expert to each shift to serve as technical adviser or supernuke, in operator lingo. The adviser is supposed to be kept free of all routine duties so that he can monitor safety indicators and help operators interpret plant conditions. Says Jim Toscas, the nuclear training supervisor for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois: "The objective is for the adviser to be so well rounded he can't be snowed by anybody in the plant...
Several times during the summer, I worked in the Times morgue, the clipping library. It was deathly boring, filing away little yellow slivers of old Times stories. I filed those clippings for hours, literally hours. Then I'd return to the copy desk to huddle with my supervisor, who'd wind me up and send me for supplies for the third time that...
...more emotional than rational," I answers Dick Lada, a Dodge Main employment supervisor. "Half the judges and attorneys in town paid for their educations working at this plant. I was born here. I've worked at this plant 15 years and hired thousands of people, many of whose fathers and grandfathers worked here. It's been good to a lot of people...
...suddenly disappeared. An unidentified voice then ordered the Soviet pilot to descend from 8,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., into airspace that is normally reserved for small planes. For three minutes-and six miles-the jetliner flew at low altitude over heavily populated Long Island, until a tower supervisor discovered what had happened. He quickly radioed the pilot and patiently guided the plane to a safe and uneventful landing. Last week the FBI disclosed that it had begun an investigation to determine whether the mishap was intentional...
Everyone is against her. The men on the line are afraid that if she succeeds, other women will follow her and take their jobs. A supervisor hints delicately at the problem women have with "certain tensions at certain times." Other women attack her, and even her own daughter, embarrassed by taunts from the other kids, asks her to give up. Ellen persists, however, and Lavin makes the struggle of a simple woman more persuasive in its dramatic impact than a whole library of ideological tracts...