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According to the M.T.A's public relations office, the cars will have two-toned tile abestos flooring and large fans to supply "regular changes of air." Stanchions down the middle of the cars "will insure reasonably steady footing" for standees, the office added...
...Rockford, Ill., one noon hour last week, a cooked-out housewife packed her three small children into the family car and set her course for a peppermint-striped glass-and-tile structure boasting a huge sign: MCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS. Stepping up to the self-service window, she ordered four hamburgers and milk shakes. Just 41 seconds and $1.40 later (hamburgers, 15?; shakes, 20?), she was on her way back to her waiting brood carrying an instant lunch...
...result of strikes by six of the 16 trade unions involved in the building's construction. The latest of these squabbles came from the glass-setters, who returned to the job Tuesday after an absence of six weeks. Other unions to strike recently are the brick-layers and the tile-setters...
Prout pointed out yesterday that a strike by one group always slows the other workers down. For example, the plumbers can't finish their installations until the tile-setters are through with the floors...
...week long Geneva's newspapers reported threatening letters received by the police from French right-wing activists, and cafe sitters all but flinched in anticipation of the explosion of a plastic bomb. As the Algerian F.L.N. delegation moved into the luxurious tile-roofed villa belonging to the Sheik of Qatar, nervous Swiss soldiers crouched low behind sandbagged defense posts. One panicky recruit fired a burst over the 'head of a photographer who was aiming his camera...