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Detroit's unexpected labor turmoil this year has had an unreal, occasionally downright unbelievable quality right from the start - but last week it turned into a full-fledged nightmare for the U.S. economy. As the United Auto Workers' strike against Ford entered its second senseless week, it seemed certain that some, and perhaps much, of the damage to the economy will be lasting...
...chains still stock plenty of merchandise that is tasteless or downright tawdry, but they are also selling more and more higher-quality, higher-profit items. Kresge's K-Marts now offer some 35,000 items, including such new additions as hi-fi sets and frozen string beans. Woolworth's stocks diamond rings at $99.95, electric organs at $79.95 and canned Scottish pheasant at $6.98, has become the nation's largest retailer of records (40 million last year) and paperback books (15 million). Already the world's largest restaurant chain (1,706 luncheonettes), it is also planning...
Still, just over the past year he vetoed 55 Democratic bills. Some, he insists, were"dangerous" to the state. Others were downright silly. One, for example, would have provided that every car sold in Rhode Island be equipped with a device that would sound a warning when the ignition key was on but seat belts were left unfastened. Says Chafee: "There wasn't a manufacturer in the country who put out such a device."Fee Saving. Chafee also presents an image in the best tradition of New England frugality. He saved architects' fees by designing his own home...
When Red China's Premier accepted Moscow's invitation to the 47th anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, it became obvious that Communism's two big powers are trying to ease their unseemly, downright embarrassing differences, which had become something of a personal obsession to Khrushchev. There is no likelihood that the split will be healed in the foreseeable future, but it will obviously not remain the same. With Chou's arrival in Moscow alongside delegations from every Communist nation in the world except Albania (which is being more Chinese than the Chinese), the post-Khrushchev...
...Oodla-Oodlee." Far from paling at the effrontery of it all, most Bach men like the gently swinging translation. And some, like Pianist Glenn Gould, are downright ecstatic: "They're just fabulously good! When I first heard them, I felt like lying on the floor and kicking my heels, that's how good I thought they were...