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...drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese Theater and the footprints and signatures of movie stars immortalized in concrete. Says Mike Sims, director of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce: "We've got stars in the sidewalk, but iron bars on the doors...
...chamber is spurring a campaign to lure legitimate business back to Sunset Strip and close down porn establishments. One of its favorite techniques: to ask the city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy...
...even solicited views of business leaders to find ways to soften opposition to labor-law reform and an increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage is set for what could be one of the harshest congressional clashes of the current session-and a test of Carter's newly professed allegiance to organized labor...
...that matter, do the Europeans themselves. American officials do not like the term, notes Paul Baudler of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt, "but if you talk to a German banker, he'll talk about 'flight capital.' " A long list of gloomy economic realities -slumping stock values on European exchanges, high unemployment rates, the rise of left-wing parties and the inability of liberal, middle-of-the-road governments to deal effectively with these problems-has prompted a chorus of Spenglerian gloom from European business leaders...
...makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near the Milliken research center. All told, companies from eight countries have plants in the area, employing 4,500 local citizens. Richard Tukey, head of the local Chamber of Commerce, has just returned from a trip to Holland, Italy, Belgium and Germany, where he sweet-talked manufacturers of chemicals, plastics and ceramics, and told everyone he was from "Souse" Carolina...