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...Project for Corporate Responsibility has placed two proposals on the Ford Motor Company proxy statement in its continuing campaign against the ten biggest corporations in America...
...descriptions of specific new techniques developed by the Corporation to promote air-pollution control and motor-vehicle safety...
Soviet society is increasingly bourgeois. By contrast, the Chinese are devoid of luxuries; they do not have motor scooters and are far behind the Russians in refrigerators and television sets (which in China are still mostly owned by communes, factories and other organized groups). But China is ahead of the Russians in some material areas, especially those not requiring modern, heavy industry. The quality and variety of many consumer goods in Shanghai's Number One Department Store exceed that found in Moscow's massive GUM. Food (a Chinese fixation) seems to be more plentiful than in the Soviet...
...poker and shoot craps-things that I was born doing." She was then sent to an Army camp where, she complains, "they had us getting up at 5 in the morning cooking for the goddam WACs." She got out of that by becoming a truck driver even after the motor-pool officer "checked me out on a six-by-six, and I ground the gears and choked it and screwed...
There is also a deflation in plans for hiring the hard-core unemployed. Ford Motor Co. had pledged to hire 1,800 lowincome, unskilled workers in the year ending this June; so far it has taken on only about 750. Among the other firms that have reduced their hard-core hiring programs are Gulf Oil and Burlington Industries. Early retirement is another increasingly common device to reduce costs. After eligibility for under-65 retirement programs was temporarily widened late last year at Eastman Kodak and IBM, some 3,700 employees from the two companies took advantage of it. More...