Word: humphrey
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Ford's employees seem likely to make some concessions to the company. Says Walt Humphrey, a transmission worker at Ford's Louisville assembly plant: "I'm willing to show the American people that we are ready to sacrifice. It might swing them back to American products." GM workers, however, appear to be taking a harder line. Says Pete Kelly, a wood-model maker at the GM tech center in Warren, Mich., and a leader of dissident U.A.W. members: "If we give concessions now, they will automate that much faster and there will be more workers...
...Kemp-Garcia plan, like so many of the president's initiatives, is merely a sop to what budget director Stockman recently called the "hogs" of American business. Full employment--not the welfare of General Motors--must be our nation's top economic priority. We reiterate our support for the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment proposal, and urge the Democrats to devise creative alternatives to the Reagan tax-break smoke screen...
...easy to dismiss the free enterprise zone plan out of hand because it does not conform to traditional Democratic ideas of how unemployment should be confronted. Reagan, however, is not about to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, and realistically, Congress is not about to pass it. The people who are suggesting enterprise zones were elected with a mandate to change the New Deal approach to social services. The conservative plan may fail totally, and then we'll be rid of it, but as long as it has noble intentions--as this one seems to--it should be allowed to fail honestly...
...zany and offbeat are also well represented on tape. British Comic Terry-Thomas is ideally cast as the reader of two "Jeeves" tales by P.G. Wodehouse (Caedmon; $12.95). Ariel, a new label, offers, among others, Humphrey Bogart as Hotspur in Henry IV on its two-volume Shakespeare in Hollywood set. And for those who cannot break the information habit, Books on Tape offers Newstrack, a bimonthly 90-minute talking magazine-garnered from the pages of TIME and other publications-for $195 per year...
BLOODSUCKERS FROM FRANCE "If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached...