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...demands. One of Abel's major goals was to win retirement on full pension after 30 years of work, reflecting a nationwide trend among unions to emphasize such fringe benefits as earlier retirement and longer vacations-mostly designed to soften the blow of automation by spreading the work thinner. That was the idea behind the U.S.W.'s pioneering 13-week vacation plan adopted in 1963. In the current shipping strike, the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union is interested almost exclusively in guaranteed vacations and pensions. Black Eyes for All. Abel was not anxious to strike. His men have...
...Rush. But this month the aneurysm grew rapidly. The elastic outer layer of the aorta was being stretched thinner and thinner, with increasing danger that it might burst and loose a fatal flood of blood into the abdominal cavity. Dr. Antenucci ordered X rays, which showed that the aneurysm had increased in size, and within a week had grown bigger than an orange. The beat of the blood pulsing through it could be felt by the doctor's hand. And it was in an especially dangerous location, below the branching of the kidney arteries (see diagram). It was time...
...Bigger & Thinner. The pipelines are also battling with the railroads, which hope to remedy loss of shipments to pipelines with pipeline systems of their own. Southern Pacific operates 1,700 miles of line along its right of way from El Paso to Oregon, and the Pennsylvania, Great Northern and Missouri-Kansas-Texas all have sizable pipeline investments. To offset such inroads, the larger pipeline companies are diversifying. Tennessee Gas owns an insurance company (Tennessee Life), two Houston skyscrapers, three chemical companies and a bank; El Paso is half owner with Rexall Drug of a plastics company...
...brightest hope for improved earnings, however, lies in technological advance. Pipeline companies this year will buy 1,600,000 tons of pipe from steel companies, which have steadily made their pipes longer, stronger and thinner-walled. The proposed Trans-Canada line, for example, would safely cross 45 miles of current in the Straits of Mackinac with improved pipe, and pipe has been laid 170 ft. deep in the Gulf of Mexico. By developing underground storage vaults, gas companies have also been able to keep up with heavy winter demand and prop up summer prices. In the marshy New Jersey meadows...
Robert Kennedy began his campaign for the Senate at the Fulton Fish Market, and the day after election he returned. The same hands pulled at him, and the same voices said, "He looks just like Jack--a little thinner and sadder, but just like him." But this time Senator-elect Kennedy smiled, for the campaign was behind him. Now he looks to the future and what will happen in New York...