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...MADE IN JAPAN, SPUTTERS ALONG AT 12 M.P.H. and weighs 70 lbs. The "suitcase auto," which will be on display this week at New York's auto show, takes about one minute to assemble. But is not intended for mass production. "We were just giving our engineers a blank sheet of paper to see what they could come up with," says Mazda representative Tom McDonald. Too bad: just imagine put-putting to the airport and stowing your car in the luggage rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma, No Wheels! | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Hand: Clinton flew to Peoria, Ill., last week to have his picture taken with striking members of the United Auto Workers at the Caterpillar plant. "It's not good business to replace workers," Clinton told them. "They have a right to strike, and they shouldn't lose their jobs doing it". . . On the Other Hand: Last month he praised rank-and-file U.A.W. workers at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas, for going "against the leadership of their own union" to accept flexible new work rules that persuaded GM to keep the factory open. Clinton implied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting with The Wind | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...BILLED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT SHOWDOWN between management and labor in this country since Ronald Reagan crippled the air-traffic-controll ers union 11 years ago. But the situation in Peoria, Ill., involving the leadership of Caterpillar Inc. and the United Auto Workers is really all about pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showdown On Labor's Front Line | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Both Wolf and Reeves say the litter problem is worst on the weekends in Harvard and Central Square because of the substantial increase of pedestrian and auto traffic. But Reeves maintains this is no excuse for a dirty city...

Author: By Mark L. Ruberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Garbage Litter The Trash Rubbish Debris | 4/14/1992 | See Source »

Accordingly, by the early 1960s, Price, now 57, had started using auto enamels and industrial pigments along with the low-fired glazes on his work. These gave an extreme density of color and, unlike in traditional pottery, a relentlessly inorganic and sinister look to his "eggs," enameled clay shells with weird lobes like giblets or tongues merging from fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faberge of Funk | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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