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...hurt. Though the energy crisis is boosting sales of small cars, it is crippling sales of big ones (TIME cover, Dec. 31), and last week U.S. automakers announced a 27% cut in production for January. General Motors last week laid off 38,000 workers indefinitely, and will temporarily furlough 48,000 more...
...guards' union gained the political support of the Boston Herald American, which used the issue as a source of sensational stories. The furlough program, for example, depended on the voluntary return of the prisoners and had a 98.6 per cent success. In the few instances when prisoners did run off, the Herald printed front-page stories condemning the entire furlough system...
...production from standard-sized autos to fuel-saving small cars. The Big Three announced last week that November sales totaled 772,795 units, down a startling 118,000 from a year earlier. Layoffs are also spreading into supplier industries: Davidson Rubber Co., the largest employer in Dover, N.H., will furlough 200 of its 1,400 employees for at least two months because of waning orders from the automakers who buy its arm rests and other components. In Pennsylvania, 3,000 employees of Leeds & Northrup, an electronics firm, will be idled for a week as their plant shuts down to save...
Last Christmas Chicoine earned a furlough to see his family, whom he is still close to. That only adds to the irony of his status as something of a celebrity at Vermont's maximum-security prison. Only five men now in Windsor have spent more time imprisoned there, and three of them are murderers...
...makes world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look at me! I'm different! I used to be an asshole, I'm not an asshole anymore!" But Pavlo abandons himself totally and blindly to the military ethic that has finally given...