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...performing on a stage of brobdingnagian proportions (70 ft. wide by 78 ft. deep), the company practically had to be shoehorned into the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, whose stage is about one-half as roomy. While seven translators repeated orders in Russian, English and French, workmen scurried about rolling up the backdrops to fit and putting up a tent to hold the overflow of the troupe's 3,000 costumes. Nonetheless, assured Chief Designer Vadim Rin-din, "the spectacle that will be seen here will be in no way inferior to that seen in Moscow...
Travis complains that most people simply do not realize what attracts rats. Rich-smelling fried food left in an empty room is bait. So are dishes in the sink. So is the feeding of dogs, cats, squirrels and birds in the backyard. Among the worst offenders are construction workmen who throw away luncheon leftovers. "There hasn't been a building put up in Washington in 15 years that the rats didn't move into before the people," says Travis. "You have the exterminator working on the first floor by the time they're laying concrete...
...Workmen have finished putting up the steelwork for an 11-floor addition to the Medical School's Kresge Center for Environmental Health...
...BGMA men, working for wages computed in 1964, have been unable to negotiate a new contract. Considering the inequity of their wage scale, a strike would be predictable; given Harvard's insulting posture of refusing to recognize the properly chosen bargaining agent of these workmen, the strike would be justified. Harvard contends that it will wait for the results of a state-run election to determine the bargaining agent for the BGMA men. Such an election is perhaps a year away, and even then Harvard, as a non-profit institution, is not legally bound to recognize whatever union is declared...
...childhood memories of Japan's traditional, majestic wooden barges ("Takamatsu, after all, is a city by the sea"). Building it, with its cable-suspended roof and abutment-supported "bow" and "stern," proved a contractor's nightmare. Whenever the gripes seemed insurmountable, Kaneko cheerfully exhorted the workmen to "show us your patriotism, for this is a work Japan will be proud...