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...much relief this can ultimately bring to the U.S. steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...
...brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling many mines for eight weeks. Though Miller personally appealed to the men to go back, his pleas were ignored. Mine owners-whose negotiating team is headed by Joseph Brennan, 42, a onetime U.M.W. official-contend that buyers are becoming reluctant to purchase U.M.W.-mined coal, because there is no assurance of continued supply...
...McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, which have long considered the U.S. plane market their own, have reacted to this new European threat by bad-mouthing the Airbus as ill suited to the needs of U.S. airlines. Despite its size, the Airbus is basically a medium-range jet, and American planemakers contend that there are no routes in the U.S. where traffic would be heavy enough to fill a profitable percentage of its seats consistently. Eastern seems willing to take the gamble, however, and U.S. planemakers are apparently afraid that other European jets may eventually follow the Airbus into the American market...
...exception of the delicate Chaplin, the other performers are as unacceptable as Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived from such...
October is a rather lazy time of year; most students have only a few hourlies and the rain to contend with, as they enjoy the last few weeks of fall...