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Fire in the Lakefailed to dent the barriers in my mind that prohibit objective thinking about the war. The book was too mystical and detached to have anything to do with the country I remember...
...major dent in car sales will be felt throughout the economy, forcing production cutbacks in tires, auto parts, eventually steel, and many other industries. If people drive less, companies that rely on car-borne customers are likely to be hurt. Among them: McDonald's hamburgers, Holiday Inns, Walt Disney Productions...
...machines or shortages of petroleum-based raw materials as disparate as chemicals, plastics and textiles. Says Associate U.S. Budget Director John Sawhill: "Sure, the Government can ration oil, but we could wind up rationing steel, aluminum and other things as well." Evaporating gasoline supplies could put a further painful dent in auto sales; car sales in October fell 11.4%. Less travel, the result of diminished auto traffic and cuts in airline schedules, will hurt hotels, restaurants and the producers of such leisure goods as motor homes and snowmobiles...
...Real Dent. For its authors and editors, Scott, Foresman has prepared a detailed leaflet called Guidelines for Improving the Image of Women in Textbooks. Among these guidelines are suggestions like "Avoid constructions implying that women, because they are women, are always dependent on male initiative." For example, rather than stating "The ancient Egyptians allowed women considerable control over property," a historian is requested to write: "Women in Egypt had considerable control over property." Macmillan and several other major publishers are revamping their textbooks, but no real dent has yet been made in their backlists, where sexism infects thousands of titles...
Swelling demand put the deepest dent in canned goods. Also, less produce than anticipated was grown this year as many farmers put in bigger plantings of extraordinarily profitable wheat and soybeans. A Teamsters strike against California canners last summer left mountains of tomatoes and other perishables rotting at loading stations...