Word: toughers
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...Tougher safety regulations governing U.S. railroads are a major goal of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has noted that derailments in creased by 71% between 1961 and 1968 (TIME, March 7). Last week the case for regulation was strengthened still fur ther when two more freight trains with potentially lethal cargoes jumped the tracks on the same...
...contest against both teams last year. 6-3, and this year the decisions could be equally close. The military universities' superior conditioning may give them the edge in the long matches. Navy seems to be the stronger, and playing on their home courts should make the Middies even tougher. Navy captain, Bob Cowen leads a team that is undefeated in Eastern play. In a contest earlier this year, the Crimson trailed 1-0 in matches, with the other five singles contests being close battles when rain ended the meet...
...Yardlings will probably have a tougher time as they travel to Byfield for a contest with Governor Dummer Academy, perennially one of the best prep school teams in New England...
...general consensus is that Columbia has some tougher guys than before but that the Harvard tennis team should still come...
...airline mechanics, who earn about $4 an hour, are back with tougher demands. Confronting the airlines one by one, the unions are calling for a 30% raise spread over three years. First they hit American Airlines, one of the industry's strongest moneymakers. After ten months of negotiations and a 21-day strike, American capitulated last month and gave the mechanics a three-year contract with a 25.5% increase, or 8.5% a year. The settlement might not seem excessive when compared with the 7.5% median annual wage increase last year, but it was clearly inflationary...