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...Odds Over Bobby. Much of the credit for the paper's verve belongs to its publisher, O. Roy Chalk, 58, who bought it from a Dominican expatriate in 1962. Though he runs a vast business empire that includes the Washington, D.C. Transit System, Trans Caribbean Airways and some choice parcels of New York real estate, Chalk devotes a minimum of one full day a week to his paper, and he writes many of its editorials. On the day after the New York power failure last November, it was on Chalk's order that El Diario ran a black...
Most, that is, except Attorney George Weinstein, 33. Convinced that the "law is clear and should be en forced," Weinstein went into New York Supreme Court as a "taxpayer and voter" to ask for an injunction barring the Transit Authority from giving the transit workers their illegal raise...
...transit workers' strike that crip pled Manhattan last month was clearly illegal. And the Transit Authority's will ingness to end the walkout by agreeing to pay an estimated $60 million in wage boosts and fringe benefits was hardly more correct. New York's tough Condon-Wadlin Act not only forbids strikes by public employees but prohibits pay raises to strikers for three years after they go back to work. Still, most New Yorkers - from Mayor John Lindsay to the harried commuters - were willing to forgive and forget...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "What a Way to Run a Railroad." a report on supertrains around the world, including the 125-m.p.h. Tokyo-Osaka Express and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit...
Died. Michael Joseph Quill, 60, the Irishman who laid his shillelagh across New York City's transit system last month; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...