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...lights were not even scheduled to row against UNH; but Syracuse cancelled out at the last moment to force a rescheduling with the heavier Wildcat squad...
...Cornell affair, freshman Dan McPherson bagged the game-winner on a controversial play in the second period. With Wildcat Paul Surdam pinned to the left post of the Cornell goal, McPherson sent a pass through the crease which deflected off a skate into the goal. The goal judge and the official ruled that the puck hit a Cornell skate--that gave UNH a 3-2 lead...
Seeking wage hikes of 40%, thousands of garbage men, hospital workers, gravediggers and schoolteachers were staging wildcat walkouts, even though Britain otherwise was supposed to be enjoying a week of relative labor peace. That erstwhile peace had been purchased at a whopping price. Some 80,000 truck drivers, whose four-week strike had dealt a crippling blow to trade and industry, were voting region by region to return to work. Well they might, since they had won a 21% pay increase for the year, hardly a farthing less than their initial 22.5% demand...
...power company singlemindedly pursuing energy without regard for human costs. Through its dependence on coal it became a scavenger on the land; through its mania for dam and park building, the T.V.A. dispossessed thousands of people who had lived in the valley for generations. Communities with names like Energy, Wildcat and Turkey have been wiped out. Through its cultivation of nuclear power (it will have seven operating plants by the late 1980s) the T.V.A. encouraged the development of a dangerous source of energy. The agency's leaders and bureaucrats also developed a contemptuous attitude towards the people they ostensibly served...
...Grospiron, president of the union, said the strike was unauthorized, but was neither illegal nor a wildcat strike since the contract had expired...