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...change the ways of European workers overnight. When John Deere took over a German-owned company in Mannheim, it decided to save time by sending carts along the production line for the morning beer break. But workers liked the chummy atmosphere of the old canteens, went on an eleven-day strike until Deere gave...
...became the leading understudy to a host of ailing maestros, winning high critical acclaim nearly everywhere he appeared. In 1961, after stellar subbing jobs in Los Angeles and Montreal, Mehta was named resident conductor with both cities' orchestras. At 24, he rejuvenated Montreal's faltering orchestra almost overnight, stretched its season from twelve to 26 weeks, more than trebled symphony subscribers, to some...
...copper was discovered at Timmins in Ontario last April, the news set off a wild rush of speculation in Canadian mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with a long-shot name-Windfall...
...everyone again. There is, for example, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, a Westerner (Montana) and a Catholic. There is also Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes, 42, a Methodist and an able, attractive campaigner, who is an acknowledged leader of Midwestern Democratic Governors and who, coincidentally enough, was an overnight guest in the White House last week just before all of the vice-presidential flutter started...
Historical, Not Hysterical. Campos is far too shrewd to dream that he can turn the economy around overnight. "Our actions are based on historical-not hysterical-concepts," he says. Inflation is obviously the primary target, and as a first step, Campos hopes to slow the spiral to 70% this year. Even that would be a major victory, considering the current rate of 30% for the first quarter. By early 1966, if all goes well, he plans to get it down to a "normal"-at least for Brazil-10% to 20% annually...