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...Boston Police stopped the demonstrators' bus caravan after only a few blocks and arrested two persons for motor vehicle violations and one for disorderly conduct. When the demonstrators neared South Boston High School the police again stopped them and arrested the remaining...
...Fairdale High School; many demonstrators parked their cars on the narrow two-way street leading to the school, preventing the eight buses filled with black students from leaving. The screaming crowd threw cups and empty soft-drink cans at the buses before police came to the rescue. A Ford Motor Co. truck plant shut down after 38% of the 1,500-man work force stayed out to show their opposition to busing...
...home goes back more than 50 years, and has prevailed in times of prosperity as well as depression. Investment money pried loose has too often been channeled into inefficient industries. A recent government example: Labor's plan to pump some $2.3 million per day into the British Leyland Motor Corp., which is currently losing $264 million a year...
Layoffs Reduced. In the bellwether auto industry, where sales have been showing erratic improvement, Ford Motor Co. President Lee Iacocca said last week that the number of Ford workers on indefinite layoffs had been reduced to 14,800 from a February peak of 35,000. He added: "We hope to get it down to zero as soon as the market recovers. Most will be back by next year." To economists in Michigan, that was industry pep talk. They note that Michigan's slight July improvement in unemployment (down to 14.2% from 15% in June) was due in part...
Parkhurst also treats advertisers with truculent disdain. For example, he refuses to accept Ford Motor Co. ads because "they made a crummy truck," and both a Union Oil Co. division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking...