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...machinery and chemicals at hand, turns out a quintal (about 220 Ibs.) of rice in less than two hours; in North Viet Nam, where even hand tools are in short supply, it takes 64 to 80 hours. Just to meet the minimum needs of its people. Hanoi must import 800,000 tons of rice and wheat flour a year...
...hard to come by that the Midwest's biggest buyer, Commonwealth Edison, has now begun to burn its winter stocks of coal to supply Chicago with power. Even domestic oil is getting more expensive, and there seems little chance of the Government's liberalizing the import quotas it imposes on foreign crude...
...full pitch only five years ago, has become a whisper in the stores. Says Bonwit Teller President William Fine: "The line-for-line derby is not consistent with the changing times and mood of the consumer." Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Alexander's have dropped their import copies. Lord & Taylor plans to continue its reproductions in different fabrics. But the only Manhattan department store still actually duplicating the Paris collections this season is Ohrbach's, and skeptics doubt that it will hold the line-for-line line much longer...
Their prospects are not bright. House members have introduced 360 bills to impose quotas on imports as varied as mink, zinc, lead, electronics products, honey and strawberries. In the Senate, Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke is likely to press for mandatory quotas on foreign steel, and Western Senators probably will try to make the meat-import quotas still more restrictive. Even the most zealous supporters of free trade in Washington see little possibility of much modification in the bill...
Because productivity has risen only 9% since 1965 while hourly pay and benefits have climbed 25%, automakers insist that sometimes they can make a satisfactory profit only by shifting operations overseas. Ford and Chrysler will manufacture engines and transmissions in Europe for their new small cars, then import the parts to be fitted into U.S.-assembled cars. All parts for G.M.'s minicar, the Vega, will be made at home, but company officials plan to have the Vega assembled partly by robots in place of union workers. The robots, called Unimates, are one-armed, computer-controlled machines that...