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...outlanders love to laugh about how fouled up New York City is, - and rarely has the laughter been louder than during last January's transit strike. Since then a lot of cities across the nation have discovered that strikes by public employees-which Franklin D. Roosevelt once described as "unthinkable and intolerable"-are no laughing matter...
Dunlop declined yesterday to discuss the issues in the American Airlines dispute. Asked if he might use the contract finally worked out in the current strike as a model for the Transit Workers dispute, he commented, "I wouldn't tell that to my mother...
...foreman, and a onetime national "Sweetheart of the Future Farmers of America," who had recent ly been elected president of the Illinois Student Nurses Association; Gloria planned to join the Peace Corps after finishing training in August. Athletic Suzanne Bridget Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary Ann Jordan, 20. Daughter of a Chicago municipal engineer, Mary Ann lived at home - but, on the fatal night last week, had been discussing Suzanne's wedding...
...ever called Gengras a plodder. He became a whiz salesman of bottled cooking gas in his teens, graduated to cars, and rapidly built a chain of automobile dealerships stretching from Rhode Island to Long Island. Then he expanded into public transit in his home state and insurance on an international scale. Along the way, Gengras presciently fathered eleven children, five of whom will be eligible to vote the G.O.P. ticket in November...
Pulpit Plugs. Greatest test of Daley's strength was another, more ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...