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...with an $80 million interest in El Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine; Cerro Corp., with $15 million in copper investments; and ITT, with $200 million or more in the Chilean telephone system, a cable company and two Santiago hotels. Others are the Dow Chemical Co., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., the General Tire and Rubber Co. and North American Rockwell Corp. The pace of Allende's actions will also depend on the state of the economy. "The more his back is to the wall," says one American economist, "the more likely he will be to move...
...stars of R.P.M. are Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret and Gary Lockwood, which says a good deal right there. Quinn plays an aging sociologist known as Paco, a campus liberal who charms the kids and flusters the board of trustees by riding around on a motor scooter and shacking up with Grad Student Ann-Margret. When radical students, led by Lockwood, take over one of the administration buildings, they demand a new college president. 'Their first choice is Che Guevara," reports the dean to the boggled trustees. "Oh they know he's dead," he adds. "Their second choice...
...those days when I had to go into the office, I would run right out to my car at 4:30 or five, race on to the freeway, race on home to suburbia. The Motor City remained a mystery...
...Toyota Motor Co., Japan's largest automaker, is a prime example. Like all car manufacturers, Toyota finds it increasingly difficult to hire young men to fill achingly monotonous jobs on the assembly line, which rolls off 60 cars an hour. "The work is simple and boring, and it is hard to get a sense of accomplishment from it," says Kentaro Sasaki, a 25-year-old personnel officer, who spent six months on the line. But whatever their feelings, the plant's workers apply themselves diligently. "They try to increase their output to show that they...
...eight hours every day, says Henry Belcher, a 40-year-old welder, "I am as much a machine as a punch press or a drill motor is." With that comment, he sums up a crucial reason for the autoworker militancy that led to the strike against General Motors. Most of the men on the assembly line hate their jobs-with a bitterness that can hardly be understood by anybody who performs interesting tasks in comfortable surroundings. At best, reports TIME'S Correspondent David DeVoss, the auto worker's routine is a daily voyage from tedium to apathy, dominated...