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...created during Phase II of the Administration's program. The miners' demands include 1) daily wage increases ranging up to $13 over three years, bringing the pay for the highest-ranking workers to $50 a day; 2) a doubling, to 80? of the "royalty" on each ton of coal that the operators pay into the union pension fund; 3) paid sick leave and improved welfare benefits...
...combination of mechanical and chemical processes. One product is clean water. The other is "sludge," a black goo that smells like tar and has the consistency of pea soup. The sanitary district's problem has been what to do with the sludge. In the past, Chicago sold tons of dried sludge to Florida citrus growers as fertilizer. But drying the waste caused massive amounts of air pollution and was expensive ($59 a ton...
...belongs to longshoremen "a lot of baloney." The Teamsters recently agreed to settle the dispute by mediation, but so far the longshoremen have shown no inclination to follow suit. The issue is vitally important to them because of the shrinking base of stevedore jobs caused by containerization. A 30-ton prepacked container can be hoisted onto a ship by three longshoremen in about two minutes; it used to take a gang of 18 men an hour to load the same amount of cargo...
...Leonard Bern stein; Columbia), this eloquently traditional 28-year-old work has survived the original scorn of avant-gardists who should have been hung by their own dog mas. Proud of theme, opulent of chord, it is performed with missionary brio by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Bos ton Symphony...
Following the design of old Egyptian murals, Heyerdahl built a papyrus-reed boat, or kaday, 50 ft. long, 15 ft. wide, and named it Ra, for the sun-god-cultural coincidence!-of Egypt, Easter Island and Polynesia. The Ra was loaded with over a ton of fresh water in authentic Egyptian jars and almost twice that weight in food. Menu samples: sheep cheese in olive oil and sello (ground almonds, honey, butter, flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew...