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...school meet at Pico Peak. Vt. the Harvard alpine skiing team qualified for next week's Division II championships yesterday. The Crimson made its best team showing of the year in a meet marred by heavy rain...
...positions in the church say that the worldwide membership was at most 2 million at the height of the movement in the early and mid-1970s, and that 75% of the total lived in the U.S. The church claims that millions more took at least some Scientology courses. The peak income year for Scientology reportedly was $100 million. Now, according to defectors, there are only some 100,000 active members in the U.S. and perhaps the same number abroad...
...sales outlook is cloudy at best. Though the U.S. Commerce Department forecasts a 25% rise in shipments during the year, to 80 million tons, that is still less than 75% of current capacity and little more than half the peak production of 150.8 million tons in 1973. More worrisome still, signs are emerging that the beleaguered and struggling industry could succumb to labor strife and perhaps even a crippling midsummer strike by the United Steelworkers of America, when the union's current three-year contract expires in August...
They had reason to cheer. The number of union production workers employed by Firestone at the factory had dwindled from a peak of 850 in early 1980 to 260. Bridgestone intends to keep on all current employees and recall 170 laid-off workers, probably by next week. The company will invest $35 million over the next five years to retool the factory with efficient new equipment and perhaps quadruple the current tire output...
Still of the Night is an intellectual thriller; it excites the mind rather than the trigger finger. As such, this stylish and excellently acted film grabs the audience's attention with an intensity reminiscent of Hitchcock's finest, keeping its suspense at a peak from start to finish. The question asked in the film's newspaper ads--"Did she or didn't she?"--is misleading. Only her psychiatrist knows for sure...