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...probably are the most blessed of all the Western nations, but [we are] in effect two nations: the producing nation-ours is ahiong the largest on earth -and the largest consumer nation on earth. And in the past, as you know, the producers have controlled our political system. In the past two years, there has been a growing division in our society about oil because the consumer voice has become stronger and stronger, and now they're about equal, I think...
Late on a dismal, rainy Friday night a motley crowd in Detroit's smoky Woodbridge Tavern listens to a woman with fierce ginger hair punching out tunes on a ravaged piano. Over the chatter, the president of the third largest union in the U.S. clutches a microphone and, in a gravelly voice, leads the house in a rendering of Solidarity Forever. Douglas Fraser has been singing this union anthem for almost half a century now, his own career paralleling the rise of the U.A.W. He is the last of a generation of labor leaders bred in the rich liberal...
...Buzz" waited to join him, "it's almost sort of a powder.") It was bona fide Big Stuff. CBS and provided 31 hours of continued coverage; ABC naturally stopped after 30. "Save us a copy," the astronauts radioed back, when informed that the New York Times had used the largest headline--"MEN WALK ON MOON"--in its history. Nine more moon landings were planned to follow Apollo XI, and NASA officials glibly predicted that a permanent space station in earth orbit as well as a lunar base would be established by the mid-seventies...
With a sigh of relief, Yale University officials last week proclaimed the triumph of their $370 million fund-raising campaign, the largest ever undertaken by a U.S. university. Said Yale's president, A. Bartlett Giamatti: "Clearly a tremendous success has been achieved." He might have added: "Finally...
America's tenth largest industrial company is like an old gas guzzler hurtling along the dangerous edge of a cliff, and in this difficult year the road is trickier than usual. Chrysler Corp., long plagued by uncompetitive products and a lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since...