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Princeton's lightweight eight won a tough race over England's Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club in the final of the Thames Challenge Cup. The Tigers' winning time...
...wife also took charge of the chaotic household finances and began checking on the baron's various bills, some of which he had accepted without verifying. She suspected that neighboring tradesmen had been cheating the unwary baron. Her accusations met with indignation among the townspeople, who had mistrusted her from the first-a foreigner, a Catholic in a largely Protestant area, and, worst of all, a former domestic servant. The baroness responded by taking a number of disputed bills to court...
Last Monday and Tuesday, more than 700,000 retailers, tradesmen and sympathizers struck in protest; the shopkeepers pulled down their blinds, turned off their lights and shut up shop. Most simply stayed home, but some marched and threw stones, tomatoes and rotten eggs at the windows of chain stores. Gas stations stopped pumping; highways and streets filled with cars that were abandoned after they ran out of fuel. Restaurants, movie theaters, newsstands all closed. Even doctors closed their offices in sympathy. Bars shut and prostitutes disappeared from the streets...
MIAMI. Condominiums dominate the entire metropolitan housing spectrum. Working-class families as well as the city's large community of Cuban expatriate businessmen and tradesmen are eager buyers of condominiums, which five years ago appealed most strongly to middle-class retirees seeking Florida's sun. Even the palm-draped skyline of stately Key Biscayne, site of President Nixon's Florida White House, is being reshaped by high-rise condominiums. Most recent addition is a group of six twelve-story high-rises on the beach...
...promise that, in the long run, the change would increase their earnings and lighten their work load. Instead it deprived them of reward for their increased productivity, and their income declined from $17 to $19 a day in 1954 to about $13 today. In relation to other basic tradesmen in Britain, the miners dropped from third place in wages to twelfth in ten years. Ever since the Heath government came to power two years ago, the miners' wages have not kept up with increases in taxes, rents and social service contributions-let alone the rising cost of food...