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...Arab terrorism. It began with random minings of roads and railroads, but has spread to such targets as the former Fast Hotel in Old Jerusalem, which was dynamited (it was scheduled to be torn down anyway), and a large canning factory at Givat Haim, which was blasted by a tractor toting 25 lbs. of TNT. The professional jobs are thought to be the work of the Syrian-trained terrorists of El Fatah, and Israeli agents fanned out through Arab settlements in the occupied territories picking up Fatah suspects. They arrested some 200, most of them around diehard centers of Arab...
...government has moved to remedy the situation. It has just set up a three-year crash program to train more people for service jobs, promised them more pay and a set of new titles of the kind previously reserved for tractor drivers and steel workers. Examples of some of them: "Master First Class" in plumbing or "Master Higher Class" in hotel management...
...clean of tickets for the Californians' two concerts. The black market became so brisk that scalpers were buying from each other, and at one concert, 600 crashers forced their way in. The next night the Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance of Mehta, his orchestra, and Negro Pianist Andre Watts's performance of a Liszt concerto were a hard act to follow...
...Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second husband William Wakeman, 44, by pointing a .22 pistol at him, firing one shot into his back when he sneered that she hadn't the nerve to shoot, now stands accused of "aggravated assault" while her husband lies...
Allis-Chalmers has 38,000 employees, runs 20 plants in the U.S. and Canada, is the third biggest U.S. maker of electrical and construction equipment and fourth in farm machinery. Under Chairman Robert Stevenson, 60, a minister's son who started off as an Allis-Chal mers tractor salesman in 1933, profits have more than quadrupled since 1961 to last year's $26 million, on record sales of $857 million. For all that, the company recently ran into trouble. The general slump in construction, rising production costs and a sticky three-month strike at two plants combined...