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This year, it was supposed to have been different. Ford Motor Co. was struck in 1967, General Motors in 1970 and Chrysler in 1973, but this time everyone in a position to prophesy had said that the triennial contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the automobile manufacturers would surely end amicably. It was not to be. Last week 170,000 Ford employees in 22 states put down their tools and walked off the lines...
...September Saturday morning, and the tribes have begun to move. The interstate highways that lace the South start to clog up with a glut of cars, campers and $25,000 motor homes complete with beds, baths, color TVs and banner-streaming antennas. Citizen's Band radios howl with rebel yells, chants and incantations: Eat 'em up, Dogs! Get 'em, Gators! Roll, Tide! The college football season has arrived. Everyone who could ferret out a ticket is going to The Game. Which The Game? It doesn't matter. The South is renewing its annual passion, and every...
...month ago fortified that claim. Apparently frustrated by resistance to his pet auto safety device, the inflatable air bag, Nader laced into Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. during hearings on the subject. The issue "is whether William T. Coleman has the guts to stand up to General Motors and the Ford Motor Company as he had the guts to stand up on civil rights years ago," Nader said bitingly...
Similarly, in July a Brooklyn jury hit Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges, Inc. with a $2.5 million damage award to Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at knife point in a company motel on Long Island. The six-man panel found that the motel had failed to put the singer in a "safe and secure room...
Regular merchants complain that the new markets cut sorely into business. In the Motor City, for instance, more and more residents are doing all their food shopping on weekends at the sprawling Detroit market. Says Nowal Makhoul, owner of a local fruit market: "Without the Detroit market, we'd be booming. With it, it's a real struggle." In Nashville, Tenn., merchants once tried strenuously-but unsuccessfully -to close down market stalls as violations of zoning regulations...