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...than 600 houses. Selling out at a profit is often more difficult than the companies suggest. Los Angeles newspapers carry classified ads offering California City lots for sale by their owners at substantial discounts from the purchase price. Robert Rosen, a Rye, N.Y., orthopedic surgeon, has been trying to unload his 5.5 acres in Canaveral Groves, Fla., for two years. He bought the property in 1960 but visited it for the first time in 1970. Contrary to what he had envisioned, there were no passable roads leading to some of his property. When he tried to walk through the brush...
...Harvard basketball team, loaded with untested talent, gets a chance to unload some of it tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Boston Garden when it opens its season against a pesky Northeastern squad in the first round of the Beanpot Tournament...
...Nixon so far has not judged the shipping tie-up a national emergency; if he did so, he could send the men back to work during a 90-day cooling-off period. Members of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (I.L.W.U.) have continued to unload passenger ships and move both war materiel bound for Viet Nam and relief supplies for East Pakistan. Even so, the strike has already caused delays and inconvenience for millions of U.S. businessmen and their customers-and taken a heavy financial toll of many of them. Shipowners lose as much...
...equipped harbor has doubled, causing major delays for unhappy Canadian shippers. In the sleepy resort town of Ensenada, the scene is even more hectic. Dozens of ships wait in line as long as three weeks for one of three berths, where Mexican laborers sometimes work 36-hour shifts to unload them. Since the strike began, Ensenada crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens sit bumper to bumper atop a cliff...
...Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker, "to shoot at everyone wearing a white shirt...