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Workers at West Germany's Porsche will get an unusually long Christmas break this year. The plants that produce the prestige sports car will not reopen until Jan. 22, and even then production will be cut back by two-thirds. The slowdown is the result of Porsche's overreliance on the American market, which absorbed about 60% of the company's production in 1986. But 1987 sales slowed to a crawl because of the stock-market crash and the decline of the dollar against the West German mark...
Jimmy Breslin is happiest when he is making himself and others angry. He has successfully done so as a New York City newspaper columnist, a sporadic television personality, and the author of six novels. He got his big break in the early '60s at the New York Herald Tribune, where his colleagues included the Richmond dandy Tom Wolfe. The contrast between the two journalists was stark. Wolfe, elegant and soft-spoken, paralyzed his victims with a distinctive satire for which there is still no antidote. Breslin looked like a dented truck, talked loud and dirty, and went after his targets...
...rude, I'm overbearing," Downey admits. But he insists such tactics are needed to "break away the Madison Avenue veneer that all these experts come on the show with nowadays. You get them angry enough, they'll blow their stack and tell you what they really think." The show's producers say Downey's abrasive style fills a gap left by the departure of Joe Pyne and other strident talk stars of the '60s. Though Downey's audience outside the New York City area is limited to about 14 million cable homes that receive WWOR, there is already talk...
...Sceilig Hotel just before 2:30 p.m., as the 9:30 a.m. starting bell at the Big Board was about to ring. Lynch got on the phone and stayed riveted to the receiver as his colleagues at Fidelity described the sickening free fall of stock prices. He took a break for dinner with Irish friends at Doyle's, one of the country's best-known seafood restaurants, but he cannot remember what he ate. As the Dow plummeted a record 508 points, 500,000 calls jammed Fidelity's toll-free number. Many customers were buying, but many more were selling...
...Christmas shopping," says Bettye Bradley, 61, of the Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have to do is rewrap my gifts." Free meals, tickets, liquor and perfume also come from those eager for guest referrals. There is no doubt the job has growing clout. "We can basically make or break a restaurant," boasts Donna Eller at the Sheraton Grande in Los Angeles...