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Rolling Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while ITT executives bargained anxiously to head off a walkout at the semiconductor plant in Cascais. "The workers are looking for heads to roll," said a nervous Dutch director of ITT. "The situation could erupt at any moment...
Mystery status notwithstanding, New Hampshire is, in the words of Wildcat coach Ted Conner, a team "about average in every respect, with no great strengths or real weaknesses." However, UNH can boast three outstanding hitters in Darryl Conte, Dave Bettencourt and Walter Benny, and Conner can call on a couple of solid pitchers in southpaw Bill Tufts and right-hander Buff Young...
Tufts is without question the ace of the Wildcat pitching staff with a 4-1 record and a 1.92 ERA. Behind him, Young has a 3-2 mark with...
...improve living standards. He was determined to avoid a repetition of the unrest and riots of 1968. Until last year his approach succeeded. But then France, as the rest of the non-Communist world, was hit by soaring inflation (10.3% in 1973) that eroded real wages and led to wildcat strikes. The Gaullist candidate in the presidential elections will probably be blamed for the faltering economy, as well as a succession of untidy government scandals that the ailing Pompidou seemed unable to prevent: the illegal bugging of up to 5,000 private telephones, tax frauds and the peddling of government...
...sleek John Hartnett, a 'Nova senior with Olympic aspirations, smashed the old IC4A two mile record with a breakneck 8:33 clocking. The soft-spoken Irishman then came back and anchored the Wildcat distance medley relay team that bettered the meet record with a time...