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Before last week's final negotiation session broke up at Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel, steel industry pressagents handed out releases that left no doubt that the meeting was going to be another flop: "Anxious as they are to see an end to this devastating strike which the union has forced upon the country . . . the eleven steel companies must continue to resist surrender [to] an agreement which will promote inflation, produce rising production costs and perpetuate wasteful, inefficient practices...
...Fourteenth of July probably demonstrated more clearly than anything how hollow grandeur really is. It might have been the biggest ever, but the consensus in the press the morning after was that is had been the biggest flop. The only thing the festivities lacked was spontaneity. On the domestic front, the regime was looking for a vote of confidence; all it got was a public ready and willing to have a politically neutral good time. On the international front, in a scene reminiscent of Moscow May Days, the French paraded through the Concorde all their newest and finest military equipment...
...Early Flop. Patty's polish, poise and professional stagecraft are the product of three brief years of TV and movies. "Patty," says her overawed mother, "was always adept at dressing up and pretending," but she never thought about acting until she was all of six years old. Her older brother Raymond (then 13) was appearing in occasional television shows, and Patty badgered Ray's agent into giving her an audition. The inflections she learned on the Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials...
...wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model, the Cadet, then decided that the market was too small, and scrapped it. But Cole, at that time Chevy's chief engineer, saw farther. He figured that buyers...
...singing the same tune as the internal and external enemies who slander us," and they are "the main danger of the moment." Thus, if heads rolled in China for a colossal doctrinaire failure, they would, typically, be the heads of men who tried desperately to stave off the flop of the leap forward, not those who obstinately insisted...