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...long-distance rigs were barreling along U.S. highways last week in near normal numbers. The powerful Teamsters union and the trucking industry had agreed on a new master contract, ending a ten-day strike and lockout that drastically curtailed transportation of goods and threatened many manufacturing industries. In all, the union and the industry estimate that the contract will give 270,000 drivers and warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council...
...Jerry Brown for President Committee." The Governor gave it back, saying that he was not yet a candidate. At week's end he was off on another trip, this time with a close friend, Singer Linda Ronstadt, and to a presumably friendlier destination: Africa, for a ten-day tour...
...fortnight ago, Government lawyers got a ten-day restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from...
...were to lose its second biggest land army and its network of intelligence listening posts next to the Soviet Union. There are some ominous similarities between the situation in Turkey and the roots of the trouble in Iran, but, concludes TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn after a ten-day tour of Turkey, there are important differences. Wynn's analysis...
Ostensibly, Agatha is a fiction that attempts to fill in the lacunae in the historical record of one of this century's least pressing but most fascinating enigmas: that ten-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, becoming the object of a very noisy hue and cry in England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story...