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...they wear as part of their religion, and this spring some 400 Amish workers in Indiana were furloughed from their construction jobs. On their behalf, Attorney John Martin Smith of Auburn, Ind., sought and won an exemption from the Labor Department. No soft-hatted Amishman is likely to demand workmen's compensation for a head injury; the Amish do not accept such insurance as a matter of principle...
...picked up and the skies around the ranch rattled with thunder-not from rain, but from the engines of executive jets that put down on the ranch's 4,100-ft. landing strip. On the spacious lawn in front of the Connallys' elegant two-story ranch house, workmen put the finishing touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef tenderloin; others monitored the huge...
...dissenting Justices, Blackmun, Brennan and Douglas, were even more sympathetic to the conservationists; so Sierra Club lawyers were only briefly dismayed by their technical defeat. The problem now is time, and the attorneys have already begun planning strategy to reactivate the case before any Disney workmen start digging...
...want to thank the many people--students, faculty, workmen, and bystanders--who were kind enough to help clean up the debris after the disturbance last week at the Center for International Affairs. The fire was set in my office, and the firemen had to throw out a good deal of material to keep the blaze from spreading. But the efforts of all these people to put out the fire and to salvage papers kept losses to a minimum. I am sorry that, in the confusion, I could not thank each of these friends personally...
...Conference Board, a top business research group, keeps an eagle eye on employment ads in newspapers. The board's help-wanted index has risen from 75 in January 1971 to 85 last January, but is still far below 1967's base of 100. Claims for workmen's compensation are sensitive to swings in the economy, says Donald Seagraves, vice president of American Mutual Insurance Alliance. When a recession sets in, claims drop; inefficient plants-which tend to have high accident rates-are shut down, and employers are under less pressure to throw poorly trained workers...