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...that they are standing still economically. Says Kevin Murphy, 36, an advertising copy editor who lives with his wife Barbara in Tamarac, Fla.: "I get a raise, and for a couple of months things seem more comfortable. Then inflation catches up with me. It's a treadmill." In Parma, Ohio, Lynda Smith, 37, a mother of two, agrees. The wife of an engineer for Ameritech, a regional phone company, she drives 30 miles round trip to stock up on canned goods at a discount grocery store. Says she: "Whenever my husband gets a raise, utilities, taxes or something else...
...last week many U.A.W. members were bristling for a showdown. Said Jim Zsigo, 37, a machine operator in the Chevrolet component plant at Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland: "We can't have them taking all the jobs to Mexico, and we can't have all our jobs replaced by robots. I can't really afford a strike, but I've been saving. I'm good for about eight weeks." Rick Herman, 39, a dyemaker in the Parma plant, was psychologically ready to walk out. Said he: "I'm looking forward to a strike...
...While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care if he's the Queen of Sheba...
Andrew Conte Parma, Ohio...
...discovered how very different Italy was through an unlikely source. Italians are a diverse lot, but they are unified by a common national obsession. From Parma to Pisa they worship the game of soccer. And in the summer of 1982 their obsession intensified with the playing of the quadrennial World Cup championships (il Mondial) in Spain in June and July...