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...about job security than higher wages. Autoworkers, whose numbers have declined from 1.5 million to 1.2 million in the past six years as their industry was battered by fuel shortages, recession and Japanese competition, were eager to protect the remaining jobs. Miners have seen their ranks thin from a heyday in 1942 of 595,000 to a current membership of 160,000, and they too wanted to keep on working. In the end, the agreements the two unions reached last week reflected a spirit of cooperation rather than confrontation...
...their recruitment quotas. The re-enlistment rate is 71%, the highest since World War II. The Army National Guard has met its authorized strength for the past three years. Applications for admission to the three service academies rose by 59% between 1980 and 1984. Old Glory is having a heyday too. The Art Flag Co. of Manhattan, a major national distributor, reports a sales increase of 30% this year. During the Olympics, a Los Angeles County inventor was awarded a patent for his electric flag-waving machine. Ridiculous, maybe, but there is also the sublime. In San Francisco last July...
Traditional Values. Reagan refers to the return to "family values" at almost every stop, and takes full credit for it. In Chicago he proclaimed an end to "something of a hedonistic heyday," and stated that "many of us turned away from the enduring values" of faith, hard work and family, "but it's passing; we've righted ourselves." Mondale also embraces family values, but defines them differently. Borrowing from New York Governor Mario Cuomo's much praised keynote address at the Democratic Convention, Mondale said that family means sharing and taking care of the weak and sick...
...Cook's tour, to leave home. One cheap, popular alternative these days is the psychic holiday: the cosmos on $5 a day. The preferred mode of travel is drugs, the destination lotus land. Madness is exotic. True, it is no longer celebrated, as it was in the heyday of R.D. Laing and the "politics of experience,"as the only real sanity in this world of (nuclear, capitalist, fill-in-the-blanks) insanity. But it retains a mystique, a reputation for authenticity and depth of vision. We know that the mentally ill inhabit a terrible place, literally a place...
...noteworthy that the show has been more successful in reruns than it ever was during its original run when it never cracked the top 20. It was slightly anachronistic in heyday. Beaver's parents. Ward and June, were a little too perfect. But we always knew what to expect from them, and the lessons they taught Beaver and Wally are as valid today as they were 25 years...