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Though the deal would save the Times, the announcement of the would-be rescuer has been greeted with dismay. Britons are already familiar with Murdoch's saucy Sun and sleazy News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...
Quentin Crisp, sartorially eccentric English author, on the distinction between fashion and style: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know...
Goldschmidt's solution to the automakers' problems is for the U.S. to adopt some of the Japanese techniques. He says that the Government, management and labor should cooperate to cut manufacturing costs and increase profits through such measures as relaxed antitrust laws and slower and smaller wage increases. To buy time for this new effort, Goldschmidt proposes that Japanese auto imports be restricted for the next five years. He gloomily predicts that otherwise only General Motors will survive as a made-in-the-U.S.A. auto manufacturer...
...Despite economic recovery and surprisingly effective planning, administration and management, the Nicaraguan economy remains weak and vulnerable to a war effort. An outbreak of hostilities would force the Nicaraguan authorities to adopt "war communism" methods. This would imply labor conscription, extending government control over private sector activities, and generally would radicalize the Nicaraguan political process...
...combat just that sort of subtle discrimination, a student group has recommended a mandatory day-long seminar for faculty on "institutional racism and sexism." We urge the school to adopt this suggestion--and one that it hire a full-time recruiter for minority students...