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...conveniently served by mass transit have found a way to spare their employees the high cost of driving to work-and save the nation some gasoline. The firms have started their own bus services, using twelve-passenger minivans that usually go right to each worker's doorstep. General Mills, Inc. has bought 13 of the vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect whatever profits remain after expenses are met and can use the vans during off hours...
...stock-market slides rumbled through Tokyo. The vision of thousands of auto workers out of money for Christmas landed with a thump on Ford's palace doorstep. The rebellious spirit in Congress shattered one day's sightseeing with the overriding of two vetoes. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's predictions of economic disaster made headlines in the Japan Times...
...Once again, the mirage rises on the horizon that a speech here and there, a book or two and some visits by Billy Graham will bring Nixon back to life. What is more apt to happen is that the full guilt of Watergate will take root on his doorstep and grow. In all likelihood his alienation from his fellow Americans will get worse. The polls indicate that they perceive him not only as one who violated his presidential trust but, in the end, as a man of such shallow courage and character that he could not confess his own fault...
...credit-allocation plan to make sure that more of the available loan money goes into construction. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, shot down that idea. "Anyone who would like to allocate credit," he said, "will find very quickly enough people on his doorstep with very good claims to the money to take up 150% of what is available...
...plate dinner to raise money for St. Anthony's Church in Portsmouth, R.I. On hand for the occasion will be some 300 of her friends and admirers, including Arlene Dahl, George Jessel and Kate Smith. Betty had fetched up on the rectory doorstep last February, stone-broke and despondent about four divorces and a dead-end acting career. Taken on as an unpaid cook-housekeeper by Fathers Peter Maguire and James Hamilton, she wasted no time at all bouncing back. "She's lost none of her zip," said Father Maguire, adding proudly, "She does a tremendous thing with...