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A "riser"--or vertical water main--burst in New Quincy and left large areas of the building without heat until yesterday, Norman Goodwin Jr., B & G utilities managers, said yesterday.
"Both had trouble with line-ups (diving lingo for clean, vertical entries), but technically, both performed well," Walker said. "Line-up difficulties are usually ironed out over the course of the season," he added.
Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing flew home to Peking last week after completing a dramatic ten-day tour of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma. Meanwhile, in Canton, a British-made Hovercraft from Hong Kong skimmed into the harbor with a load of 63 tourists, inaugurating the first regularly...
In the past five years Pat has been expanding, and trying to beat the wild fluctuations in crop prices, in another way: bringing to the farm lands the concept known in industry as vertical integration. Like other growers, he resented having to take his beets for milling to the nearby...
In 1975, Pat extended vertical integration to wheat. He was miffed because the operators of a country elevator refused to buy part of his crop when he judged the price to be right, but told him to wait several weeks while they worked out storage and transport snarls. Benedict got...