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...framed the stage like the barricades of a medieval fortress. On the floor lay a magnificent tangle of wires and cables. On the stage apron, like Buddha contemplating his navel, sat a giant electronic console glorying in its own inputs, modules and mixers. Visitors to the 2,006-seat Zellerbach Auditorium at the Berkeley campus of the University of California last week could be forgiven for thinking that they were about to hear the rock concert to end all rock concerts...
...that specter was Union Carbide, which threatened last fall to lay off 625 employees at its plant in Marietta, Ohio, in order to meet air-emission standards. The company has since reversed its decision, but several other marginal plants, including three West Coast sulfite pulp mills owned by Crown-Zellerbach, have been closed down. A group of District 50 Allied and Technical Union members sent Muskie a list of 50 companies whose employment is expected to be cut because of pollution controls. Ralph Nader, who testified at the hearing, introduced an ominous new term: the "environmentally unemployed...
...earnest only when court action is threatened. In replying to this criticism, industry executives note that there are still no nationwide standards for many kinds of pollution control. If federal laws become tougher than local ones, they note, much of their early investment could be wasted. Says Crown-Zellerbach President C.R. Dahl: "Standards have a way of changing on us, so we never really know where we will be tomorrow...
Despite federal court rulings that race must not be a consideration in promotions, assignments or seniority, the United Papermakers angrily threatened to strike Crown Zellerbach's plant at Bogalusa, La., after the company agreed to end discrimination. After a lengthy legal battle, five New Jersey locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers agreed for the first time in 1966 to admit Negroes into apprenticeship training. Today, only a handful of blacks have broken into the locals...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, New Zellerbach Auditorium (July 8-13). Tony Richardson's production of Hamlet stars Nicol Williamson...