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...Junior Assistant jobs start at a salary of $2,974 a year, with the usual Civil Service promotions and benefits. The jobs include work is almost every field, from astronomy and forestry to social science analysis and legal assistance...
This year's coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
Ching last Wednesday invited both sides to a conciliation meeting, and Lewis replied in his usual pithy manner, "will attend." The owners also agreed, and the first session of talks was held on Friday, with no results announced. The three principals will be back at it again tomorrow, with Ching determined to effect a quick settlement...
...team followed its usual Monday routine-a couple of hours in the Dillon lounge looking at the Cornell movies, then 90 minutes on the field. Group work, backfield and line drills, and a fast dummy scrimmage comprised the openair schedule...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...