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Wrong Number. Last weekend negotiators struggled to avert a nationwide walkout by 710,000 Bell Telephone System employees. The Bell workers' motives were not unlike those of employees in other industries riddled with or threatened by strikes. American Telephone & Telegraph had offered wage increases averaging 9.4% this year and totaling 15% over the next three years...
...Bruce Reed has a thin, wasted face and the appearance of a man twice his age. A welfare recipient, he spends his days wandering down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, Calif., with a bottle of cheap wine or a marijuana cigarette in his hand. Tom Finley, 21, also a Telegraph Avenue regular, earns a scant $40 a month, mostly by selling his blood. Annie Peters, 17, lives off the refuse in Berkeley garbage cans and occasionally peddles dope. Though their names have been changed, their stories are very real and typify the plight of what two social scientists at the University...
What we have is a troop train carrying relief and medical supplies to a snowy Nevada cavalry fort supposedly afflicted by an outbreak of cholera. As the train chugs onward through the mountains, bodies proliferate like Ten Little Indians, telegraph wires go dead, troop cars are uncoupled and plunge spectacularly into ravines. As always in MacLean, alarming quantities of wine and whisky are consumed...
Similar Suits. Such awards may become a trend. Two weeks ago, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. settled a similar suit by agreeing to pay $30 million to 25,000 managerial-employee victims of discrimination-most of them women. And in 1973 AT&T also agreed to pay $45.7 million to at least 36,000 nonmanagement employees. Last week, with federal investigators looking over their shoulders, Rutgers University officials revealed that $375,000 is being paid to women and minority-group faculty members who have been receiving lower salaries than white male colleagues. A Bethlehem Steel plant in Maryland...
...conservative portfolio, for example, contained stock in American Telephone & Telegraph, DuPont, Exxon, General Electric, Manufacturers Hanover Corp., and Proctor and Gamble...