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...city of Detroit, which rides the auto industry's undulations as if on a roller coaster, has yet to feel the worst of the downturn in car sales. Though auto layoffs have driven joblessness to 11.8% in the city, auto workers who have at least one year's seniority will qualify for supplemental unemployment benefits, or SUB, tacked on to unemployment compensation; the total can go as high as 95% of take-home pay for a 40-hour work week. But SUB funds, supplied by companies as part of the union contract, are not infinite and could expire...
...knows? Harvard may surprize this year. Perhaps it will overpower all comers. Or perhaps it will get licked with discouraging regularity. But don't count on it. I predict another roller-coaster season. I wouldn't want it any other way because by now I have become addicted to Crimson cliffhangers...
...been looking remarkably bedraggled lately. In May 1972 the price hit 149½, as optimism spread about the supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing color camera that Chairman Edwin H. Land had dramatically demonstrated to shareholders a month earlier at the annual meeting. The stock then rode a roller coaster (see chart) as great expectations about the camera alternated with apprehension about sales and technical difficulties. But in the past year or so, the lows have been getting steadily lower. Two weeks ago, negative brokerage-house reports knocked almost 20 points off the price in two days, pushing...
...chain-smokes ideas like cigarettes and emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
Badge of Honor. For some, sitting through the film has become a badge of honor, like riding the steepest roller coaster in the amusement park. "I've been in this business 47 years, and I've never seen anything like it," asserted Los Angeles Theater Manager Harry Francis. He estimates that each performance exacts an audience toll of four blackouts, half-a-dozen bouts of vomiting and multiple spontaneous exits...