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...ignore an occasion that brought together the major Allies in an event that was televised across Europe and reported in detail on every front page. Rightly or wrongly, West Germans were made to feel the stigma of a Nazi era that for many of them is as remote as Kaiser Wilhelm...
National first approached Nippon Kokan about a joint venture last July. Love knew that the Japanese company wanted a beachhead in the U.S. In 1979 Nippon Kokan considered buying plants from Kaiser Steel, but backed out after deciding that the facilities were outdated. Last year the Japanese firm broke off negotiations to buy Ford's Rouge Steel unit, mainly because the United Auto Workers would not make wage concessions. This time Nippon Kokan did not insist on a new contract with National's steelworkers, though they make an average of $21 an hour in wages and benefits, compared...
...striving to diversify beyond what it was for so long: a supplier of so-called niche cars for a limited market. Best known: the Jeep, which AMC bought from Kaiser Industries in 1969. Sales of the profitable four-wheel-drive vehicle are phenomenal. They more than doubled, to 16,500 through mid-February, from the same period a year...
...Satcom satellite hover above. Along the way to the shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that all good design must be Danish. There are two Italians (Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Marco Zanuso) and a Finn (Tapio Wirkkala), reflecting the international, eclectic diversity of the decorative arts...
Much of the wine and olive oil produced on the villa is processed and served there as well, according to Kaiser...