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...students" were junior-college teachers from big cities across the U.S. The instructors were tough street youths - blacks, Chinese and Mexican Americans - ranging in age from 14 to 25. The course, a one-month summer institute that has just been completed at City College of San Francisco, was unique. It was designed to send teach ers back to campus in the fall with a better understanding of the ghetto-bred stu dents in their classes...
...afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College in Minnesota, says of his one-month exposure to the streets: "I have been turned inside...
When the '69 models were introduced in October, the industry had its best one-month record in history, selling 886,000. In November another 786,000 new cars were sold. That was predictably fewer than in the previous month of model introductions, the usual early impulse buying and fleet orders; still the total was 27% higher than in November 1967. This month the automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break...
Where It Hurts. Price increases provoke sporadic boycotts, particularly among housewives. Generally, however, the consumer response has been one of resigned indifference. Most families have up to now overcome the price differential by cutting back a bit on a record level of personal saving. There has also been little hesitation about going into debt. Consumer installment credit increased in August by $853 million, the Federal Reserve Board noted last week; this was the largest one-month rise in 27 years...
...five cognacs during a flight from Stuttgart to Hannover last March, Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden, 47, leader of West Germany's radical rightist National Democratic Party, cruised out of the airport and crunched his Mercedes 200D into a construction barricade. That boozy little episode has cost him a one-month suspended sentence; he had his license lifted for three months and had to fork over $556.25 in fines and $750 in repairs. But Bubi still has his wheels: he has hired a chauffeur to drive him around...