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...called target company-this year, Ford. The union's logic: the target company, fearing a loss of business to the competition if it alone was struck, would do its best to meet labor's demands. Talks began in July, and Ford, as is the custom, presented a skimpy mettle-testing counteroffer to the U.A.W.'s platform. No problem so far; a walkout still seemed remote...
...segregation, reaching on through the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, 1965 and 1968 -the barriers against blacks in the South have come tumbling down. But it is shocking to recall how high they were in 1954, and in many cases much later than that. By statute, ordinance or custom that had the force of law, blacks in most parts of the eleven states of the Confederacy, plus some Border states and Washington...
...movie is lavishly lit and wonderful to look at, a sumptuous blend of realistic sets slightly scaled down to kid size (wet streets, neon signs, shabby rooming houses and dingy soup kitchens) and refracted whimsy. At Fat Sam's, the "house special" is soda pop, and the custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone...
After more than eight decades of catering to princes and Presidents as well as just run-of-the-millionaire sportsmen, New York-based Abercrombie & Fitch now finds itself looking, figuratively, at the business end of one of those $6,000 custom-made rifles it has become famous for. Losses for the nine-store chain have widened steadily over the past six years, and lately they have grown as big as all outdoors-from $540,000 on sales of $25.4 million last year to a thumping $1.7 million in the first three quarters of 1976. Last week, amid talk that...
...brought around with brandy. To gain restitution, the depositors would have to declare the contents of their boxes, something that the law does not normally require of them. But in France, where hiding wealth from tax collectors under mattresses and in bank vaults is a national custom, such declarations promised to expose many depositors to trouble from the government...