Word: mountain
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...part of the Big Three may actually reflect their satisfaction over Reuther's ticklish position. Nonetheless, an end to the industry's labor strife seems uncomfortably far off, one reason being that the union, as G.M.'s Seaton complains, has yet "to put priorities on its mountain of demands." Besides his wage demands, Reuther has raised such sticky issues as a "guaranteed annual income." And even when a settlement with Ford is finally achieved, the U.A.W. will have to deal with Chrysler and G.M.-where strikes could also develop, if not over national issues, then over almost...
...independents have to fathom when to slow down leasing of third-generation equipment because of obsolescence." There is little agreement among experts as to when that stage will arrive. While the immediate prospects for the computer-leasing companies seem bright, their profits could plunge, leaving them with a mountain of debt, if the fourth generation of computers reaches the marketplace sooner than they expect. The crucial time will probably arrive...
...represents the whole nation on the couch. As for the story, and mercifully there is one, DJ. loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case...
...clock in the morning of April 20, three men walked along a narrow mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
...lament of an outside reformer concerned about the obvious failure of the nation's ghetto schools. It is based on Holt's minute note taking and sharp observation in 14 years of teaching above-average students in such selective sanctuaries as Aspen's Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Cambridge's Shady Hill and Boston's Commonwealth. The son of an affluent Manhattan insurance broker, Holt's own education included Switzerland's elite Le Rosey, Phillips Exeter and Yale ('44). Once fascinated by physics as "a way of getting at the truth of things...