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...stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly justify a heartless denial of needed benefits to their workers, who have produced this mammoth pile of profits...
...year, to a record $5.22 a share. Though Ford's second-quarter sales were only $3.7 million higher than the first quarter, its profits rose $16.3 million, demonstrating what automen have long known: once they hurdle the hump of initial cost and keep on selling, the profit dollars pile up with amazing speed...
...secondary-school students filled notebooks with the theory of computers as expounded by visiting Professor Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener himself. At Northwestern's engineering labs in Evanston, 96 boys and girls studied why quicksand becomes quick, and found out the most economical way of sifting and smelting a pile of copper...
...Kafkaesque a legal code as besets any country. Wrestling with precedents that go back to the Twelve Tables of 450 B.C., to the Caesars and Hadrian and Justinian, plagued by remnants of the Code Napoleon and the harsh Fascist glorifications of police and state, baffled judges let dockets pile up. Cases drag on, and prisons overflow with prisoners still awaiting trial. The solution: a periodic amnesty...
...Political Army. Diaz Lanz's charge is backed by a growing pile of evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...