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Make-work and Macaroni. The Viet Nam buildup left the Seventh with an inexperienced cadre and second-class equipment. Lack of money meant less field training and more make-work. "They send me to the motor pool every day and tell me to paint that truck," complains a G.I. in Kaiserslautern. "The next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted...
...that many well-meaning people (especially if they have never worked in a factory) may believe him. Swanson portrays the lot of the white American worker as that of endless drudgery rewarded by measely wages. It may come as a surprise to him to know that the average Ford Motor Co. worker (not executive) earns $16,000 a year. Even with inflation, $16,000 permits a family man to look forward to a lot more than merely getting drunk on weekends. As a matter of fact, the vivid proof of the growing well-being and prosperity of the average worker...
...Washington-based labor correspondent Mark Sullivan. A second-generation journalist whose father covered labor affairs for the Seattle Times, Sullivan began his career with TIME as a copy boy in 1948 and was assigned to our Detroit bureau four years later. As soon as he arrived in the Motor City, Sullivan was greeted by his first big labor assignment: interviewing the late Walter Reuther. In Detroit, and later in our Houston and Washington bureaus, he reported on many major labor-management rifts, including a nationwide U.A.W. walkout against General Motors, three railroad strikes, a newspaper strike and last year...
...rising stock market. G.M. Chairman James Roche, looking into one of U.S. industry's key crystal balls, last week came up with a prediction little short of shining. G.M., said Roche, believes that the 1972 model-year "could be a record one for the automobile industry, with total motor vehicle sales approaching 12,750,000 units." That would be a 15% increase oversales in the 1971 model-year...
...like buying a suit. Nobody wants one with narrow lapels. People who buy Valiants and Darts may buy a car just for transportation, but a person who spends $4,000 to $5,000 for a car wants to be different." Apparently on the same theory, Ford Motor Co.'s 1972 Thunderbird is bigger than the 1971 model both inside and out, and its V-shaped nose has been slightly blunted. The Ford Torino will have a new oval-shaped grille, and the Continental Mark IV will be 4 in. longer. The Mercury Montego, which has not sold well...