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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What dock strike? Now in its second month and with a good possibility of ending this week, the walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks-an annoying shortage here, a raised price there. Unlike stoppages in major industries such as coal and steel, which threaten the nation's ability to produce, the dock strike has only slowed or stopped deliveries of hundreds of less-than-vital imported items-Danish hams, French wines, foreign cars...
...some cases, that influence is direct and unquestioned. The Brown, Yale and Princeton student governments, for instance, may spend several thousand dollars in student activities fees that all students must pay. Usually this money supports student organizations and funds social and cultural events...
League scoring leader Paul Milone punched home his eighth goal of the season at 38:54 to spark the Princeton effort, and with the several thousand-strong home crowd going berserk, the Tigers began to press...
...present composition of all citywide representatives to a mixture of citywide and district representatives. Reformers designed the changes specifically to insure black representation on both bodies and greater responsibility to constituents among the representatives by tying them down to set districts. The referenda lost by only a few thousand votes but 32 per cent of the voters--28,000--did not even vote on the questions...
...fire, which broke out at 10:15 p.m., resulted in on injuries, but a resident of the affected suite said he fears property damage may run to several thousand dollars...