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...somebody who is trying vividly to transform himself out of himself and into his vividly transforming heroes. I am very much like somebody who spends all day writing." Occasionally the interviewer gets the last word. When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation" to Gertrude Stein's disgruntled auto mechanic, he is asked, "Is it possible the garageman was referring to 'a lost generator...
...talks might have been related to GM's mammoth cost- cutting effort. In recent weeks, GM has announced plans to close ten factories, terminate 29,000 workers and reduce by half the planned output at its proposed ultra-computerized Saturn plant in Tennessee. Said Ann Knight, who follows the auto industry for PaineWebber: "If GM should really downsize itself, some of its need for EDS would go away." Some observers think the negotiations did not focus on the sale of EDS but on increased business -- or a possible joint venture -- between...
...this year exports are likely to fall. Shipments of color TV sets in October were down 49% from the same period of 1985, the third consecutive monthly drop. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association calculates that at an exchange rate of about 160 yen to the dollar, auto exports to North America will decline 28% in the year ending March...
...nominally all-Communist society. Craftsmen and professionals regularly moonlight to supplement their state-regulated salaries. The practice is called nalevo (working "to the left"). Last week the Supreme Soviet made much nalevo legal by passing a law that allows 29 types of private business, including carpentry and auto repair. One reason for the legislation is that it enables the state to collect added revenues. Practitioners of nalevo must now + register with their local governments and annually relinquish up to 13% of their earnings as income...
Once more blood flowed in a Paris street. Once again posters picturing suspected killers appeared in the City of Light. This time the victim was Georges Besse, 58, president of France's largest auto-manufacturing concern, state-owned Renault. Coming just two months after a wave of bombings in crowded commercial centers across Paris killed eleven and injured more than 160, the shooting of Besse outside his home last week shocked and saddened the nation. On Friday 2,000 mourners, headed by President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Jacques Chirac, attended a funeral service for the slain executive at the Hotel...