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...able economists and engineers had long known that much of the Soviet economy was a joke, and started saying so. Typical was the protest about the construction of the Novo-Lipetsk steel mill. The plans took up 91 volumes comprising 70,000 pages, specified precisely the location of each nail, lamp or washstand-everything, in fact, except whether the project was economically sound. An engineer estimated perhaps half in jest that at the rate the paper-wafflers were multiplying, by 1980 the planning agencies might well employ every man and woman in the Soviet Union. One mathematician made the astonishing...
...Frei may not be able to get a single key bill through his lame-duck Congress, but he has certainly stirred the country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete 100 classrooms during the present two-month...
...firm's ethical-drugs division, bought his way to strength in proprietary drugs and toiletries by acquiring Grove Laboratories and Clairol. The biggest supplier to the nation's bottle blondes ("Is it true... blondes have more fun?"). Clairol is test-marketing a line of lipsticks, nail polishes and other cosmetics keyed to its hair colors. In a business of tough competitors and fickle customers, Schwartz spends $10 million yearly to develop new products, more than $75 million on advertising. Among Bristol-Myers' contributions to American civilization: the first buffered aspirin (Bufferin), the first non-peroxide hair coloring...
...different tack. In the murder trials, if Whitmore took the stand to repudiate his confession, prior convictions would be admissible evidence to impeach his testimony. By arrangement between the Brooklyn and Manhattan D.A.s, Whitmore was thus tried first in Brooklyn, where the nurse's identification would help nail him for attempted rape; the Brooklyn and Manhattan murder trials were scheduled to follow in ascending dramatic order...
...Delaney began talking about Robles on being arrested for killing a drug pusher. He was soon cleared ("justifiable homicide"). According to some stories, Robles readily admitted during bull sessions at Delaney's flat that he had "iced" (killed) the Wylie and Hoffert girls while burglarizing their apartment. To nail Robles, the police got a court order allowing them to bug Delaney's flat and record Robles' conversations. Delaney also wore an underarm recording device for monitoring other chats with Robles. Whether or not it stands up in court against Robles, the Supreme Court has held such evidence...