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Chrysler will increase its Fenton work force, used for building LeBarons, convertibles, Dodges and the successful K car, to as many as 4,300 people, from 2,600, and will also install some 45 welding robots. First crack at the jobs will go to 3,300 Chrysler workers on layoff from the plant. There was widespread relief in and around St. Louis, which has an unemployment rate of 11.1%. Said Missouri Governor Christopher Bond: "We have seen unemployment far too high, far too long." Sighed Richard Burton, president of United Auto Workers Local 136 in Fenton: "Good news has been...
...fashioned tyrants like his mentor, George Szell, or Fritz Reiner. "Perfectionist is one of the stupidest words in the English language," says Levine. "Take any performance. I promise you that there will be a pizzicato chord that's not together; somewhere or other a horn will crack. If there are a number of magical and successful moments that really capture what they should, then a technical imperfection here or there will pass. The question is whether you are counting successes or counting mistakes...
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (RCA, 2 LPs). The Song of the Night defeats most conductors. James Levine and the Chicago Symphony crack its secrets with a powerful performance...
...tente, he was the last President to conduct a coherent and largely successful policy for managing the rivalry between the superpowers. During his six years in office, Soviet mischief making in the Third World was more restrained than it has been since. The Soviet leaders opened the door a crack in permitting emigration, only virtually to close it later. They signed agreements that imposed rudimentary but still useful rules on the arms race...
...view of most experts, De la Madrid will have to maintain a policy of austerity for anywhere from one to four years. His decision to crack down on corruption is designed to avoid the social explosion that might loom as living standards drop further. De la Madrid's aim is to show that belt-tightening will affect the rich as well as the poor. "What's fair is fair," explains a P.R.I, 'politician. "We cannot have fat-cat officials taking advantage of these conditions to feather their own nests." De la Madrid has also made clear that...