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...more severely than other automakers. Traditionally committed to large luxury-studded land cruisers, the firm was forced to lay off more than 160,000 workers while retooling to produce small cars. At financial analysts' meetings this summer, top GM executives soberly predicted that sales and profits would not climb back to last year's record levels until...
...ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down a $25 annual premium and receive a limited number of cut-rate consultations with lawyers at the co-op's affiliate, Consumers' Group Legal Services...
...named Winthrop Rutherfurd. Hidden in a private Secret Service car, Lucy attended all four of Roosevelt's Inaugurations. He phoned her constantly, speaking in French if a member of his staff was in the room. They often met secretly in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Lucy would climb into the back of the big, seven-passenger limousine with the President, and they would drive slowly for an hour along the winding roads...
...Radcliffe teams, however, found the merger a financial windfall. Compared to a 1972-73 budget of about $75,000, women's athletics had $144,350 at its disposal for the 1973-74 year. This year's budget will climb to about $170,000. Given the no-growth Harvard budget, an increase for women necessarily meant a cutback in funds that used to go to men's programs, irking some of the male athletes...
...continued climb in interest has killed all hope of a recovery in housing, which once seemed likely to lead the economy back to resumed growth in late 1974. Housing starts have fallen 38% in the past year, to an annual rate of 1.3 million, and seem likely to go even lower. Little money is available at any price. Savings and loan associations, the prime source of mortgage money, lost $582 million in deposits in July, as savers withdrew their funds to seek higher interest than...