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...Tambov Russia, Soyer wanted to be an artist. Along with two of his brothers, Moses and Isaac, both professional painters today, he made endless sketches of horses and Cossacks, which his father would painstakingly correct. In 1913 the family moved to the U.S. to escape Russia's chronic antiSemitism, and in time Raphael went to evening art classes at Manhattan's Cooper Union. He quit high school m his sophomore year, worked as a messenger boy, a factory hand, even did a stint in a shop that turned out cheap flowery embroidery. But he spent every spare moment...
...whole thing is lousy," explains one Norge executive, "but the automatic washer is probably more susceptible to service than any other appliance in the home." He speaks from rueful personal experience. For years there was no formal exchange between Norge's service department and its engineers, and chronic complaints never filtered back to the machine designers-a gap since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control, and sales soared To test its 1961 refrigerators, Westinghouse shipped them to nine representative dealers for home testing. The dealers found that the refrigerator doors...
...BUSINESS). Bound to suffer: Canada's railroads, which already lose money on their cross-continent runs (one-way tourist fare, including a berth but no meals or extras: $115.40). TCA Boss McGregor is not concerned about his competitors. "The lower we can keep fares without getting into a chronic deficit position," he says, "the better it will be for both TCA and the traveling public...
...recovered with standard treatment. After recovery, 46 of the 100 patients resumed regular activity, reported no angina or other subjective symptoms of coronary insufficiency. Nonetheless, ten of the 46 suffered second attacks within the five-year period, and one died. The other 54 patients, although apparently recovered, complained of chronic angina. Of these, 38 were again stricken before the five years had passed, and eight died. The overall rate of recurrence among both groups: 48%. Overall mortality rate for the victims of second attacks...
Even more serious than the difficulties of voluntary poverty, however, is a "neurosis of chronic boredom." Goodman finds that, as cities, machines and the organization of production have grown "out of human scale," the sense of causality is lost. In the crowded city, there is a loss of neighborhood, because of poor planning and increased mobility of families. "A child might not even know what work his daddy does. Shop talk will be, almost invariably, griping about interpersonal relations...