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...threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
Luciani is a man who is not afraid to change his mind. He kept a low profile at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and admitted afterward, "The part that caused me most problems was that on religious liberty. For years I had been teaching his [Vatican Cardinal Alfredo Otta-viani's] theories about law, according to which only the true Roman Catholic religion has rights. I convinced myself, however, that we had been wrong...
Never too big for his red hat, the patriarch always kept a confessional to hear the sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...
When a 31-year-old manufacturing-company executive moved out of his rented home in Oregon, the landlady kept $125 of his $325 security deposit. That sort of thing happens often enough. When it does, tenants usually consider the morass of paper work and legal fees likely to result from bringing suit and glumly drop the whole thing. But this executive and his employer had each been contributing just over $1 per week to a group legal insurance plan, underwritten by Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. and sponsored by the Oregon State Bar Association. The tenant simply consulted...
...rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about the war." At Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Kennedy was asked by an English friend where President Johnson was. "Kennedy observed, without bravado, that lack of physical courage kept him away." It is hard to decide which is more offensive, Kennedy's insult or Schlesinger's bland, exculpatory narration...