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Says he: "The Reagan Administration's approach will boomerang. The more they succeed, the more they assure their ultimate failure." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus
With its disregard for minorities, the administration's assault on labor will boomerang, showing the folly of pouring dollars into defense while wounding the country to be defended. By next summer, cities may be torn asunder with riots reminiscent of this summer's events in Britain and all areas of the economy will be riven with strikes. The positive public reaction to Reagan's handling of the controller strike is instructive. Flexing of pectorals is appealing until one becomes muscle-bound. But more than anything, the air traffic situation throws into sharp relief the importance of the right to strike...
...letter is to get rid of it, to take the words that have been lolling about the brain like summertime teenagers, and putting them to work. But here we come full circle. For, as experience proves, one is not rid of the words by writing them. Too often they boomerang, are snagged in the wind and snap back with amazing ferocity...
DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
...sells. Puritan Fashions reports that sales of Klein jeans have risen so far this year to $110 million, up from $65 million in 1979. The company predicts that its fancy denims will bring in $200 million next year. But some admen fear that too much suggestive promotion may boomerang on the products being sold...