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...ultimate in job security-and a model for other unions. A worker who is either 55 years old and has been with the same company for 20 years, or is 50 and has been with it for 25 years, cannot be fired at all. Says a German industrialist: "With or without socialists in power, we have socialism in Europe...
...highly appreciated first novel, The Painter Gabriel (echoes of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth in New York's East Village), uses a light, syncopated style to move his twins quickly through the years and a series of jobs: countermen, attendants to a decaying old industrialist, driver of a brakeless ambulance. It must be inferred that Leo is the one on the left, since he does the driving...
...flight from Madrid to Rome for a three-day stopover. Perón, accompanied by his third wife Isabel, several bodyguards and a secretary, boarded a sleek Mystère-20 executive jet emblazoned with the Argentine colors. The plane was said to have been donated by a German industrialist in Madrid...
...hosannas sung to it in The Music Man, Gary, Ind., is not one of those garden spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town...
...Viet Nam with the basis for what could become a modern economy. Working for the Americans or the South Vietnamese government, some 300,000 people learned useful skills as clerks, mechanics, technicians, engineers. The war also brought forth all manner of entrepreneurs, from the black-marketeer to the small industrialist. Last year they built or expanded factories that produce textiles, plastics, detergents, bricks, ceramics and flour. South Viet Nam is abundantly endowed with highways, power lines, ports and well over 100 airfields?mostly built for the war but now in place...