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...swastika-emblazoned daggers and flags. Old military uniforms and insignia-including Nazi versions-have been snapped up by various nostalgia collectors who may have no particular ideological axes to grind. Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...
Bold Idea. Does that mean the Steelworkers intend to import to the U.S. the Japanese idea of guaranteed employment with the same company from apprenticeship to grave? No one can say: the union has yet to figure out how to put its bold idea into practice. Steelworkers Special Counsel Elliot Bredhoff concedes that the whole concept "is rather nebulous. We'll be exploring all ideas." About the only thing that is certain is the demand will not lead to a strike when contracts covering 337,600 workers at the Big Ten steel companies expire July 31. The talks will...
...behavior during the last week of the old year. Upon his return on New Year's Eve the family welcomed him back with a big dinner. This dinner, as one might expect, continues as one of the strongest surviving traditions. The menu includes a variety of foods with symbolic import (e.g., noodles are eaten for long life). Although the list of such foods is lengthy, fulfilling the requirements is generally not considered a hardship...
...President's main emphasis is on stricter conservation of energy. In his fireside chat, he pointed out that the amount of energy now being wasted is greater than the total amount that is imported (in 1977 the U.S. is expected to import $41 billion more in petroleum products than it exports). Carter also called for more development of coal in "an environmentally sound way" and further research on solar energy. On atomic energy, he was cautious. He asked for "strict safeguards on necessary atomic energy production." Later in February, he pledged, he will ask Congress for help in combining...
Still, the government is pressing ahead with expansion programs. Under the newest five-year plan, approved in September, India will allot $22 billion in public money to increase production in "core" industries, including oil and fertilizers. Liberalization of import controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies of scarce commodities such as cotton and cooking oil. And, assuming her Congress Party wins the March elections-which it almost surely will-Mrs. Gandhi will have to deal with an unaccustomed problem of plenty: how to distribute surplus food before it rots in the fields...