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...endlessly repeated in New York City's black and Hispanic ghettos, as shocked and angry owners of some 2,000 stores counted their blackout losses and thought hard about sticking, or fleeing the battle zone. One of the worst hit was Fedco Foods Corp., the nation's largest black-owned retailer, which had eight supermarkets looted. By last week, six were back in operation, as were several other well-capitalized, chain-owned markets and high-volume discount stores. But hundreds of tiny shops-most of them mom-and-pop operations that barely scraped by even" in the best...
...really be as poorly run as its detractors say it is? The company has always been a tempting target, partly because of its very size. Besides being New York City's biggest taxpayer ($471 million last year) and second largest private employer (25,371 workers), it operates a vast power system comprising 118,000 miles of overhead and underground wires, cables, gas mains and steam pipes, as well as 15 generating plants and battalions of maintenance crews that seem to be forever tearing up city streets. When Luce was brought in to run the company in 1967-two years...
Barre's Law. These and other factors have altered some old established patterns of foreign investment in the U.S. While British investors still have the largest stake in their old colony, the big change in recent years has been the surge in investment by the French and the Germans. The French stake in the U.S. economy has grown more quickly than any other, expanding from a mere $300 million in 1971 to an estimated $2 billion today. French officials are actively encouraging firms to move abroad. Says Premier Raymond Barre: "You can't take on the Germans...
...nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site of the world's largest children's museum with the opening of a five-acre, $6.8 million building, an 1860 locomotive and caboose are displayed along with a Victorian railway station...
...best, fairy-tale stuff, but there is such a sweet, pleasant air about the enterprise. Everyone concerned works so earnestly and professionally to bring it off that it manages to transcend its inherent banalities. Those who deserve the largest share of the credit are Director Johnson, a solid pro who has done good work on the action circuit, and his three leading players. Johnson has a sure hand with the sports stuff; his games and practices are hard-charging and harsh-breathing. They provide an energetic contrast to the romantic sequences, which do not go mushy, and the didactic ones...