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...only spectacular gainer. Chrysler rang up a first-quarter profit of $72.1 million, v. a loss of $94.1 million in the opening three months of 1975. Outside the auto industry, profits of electronic and electrical-equipment firms on average have more than doubled; some apparel and textile firms are showing increases of more than 300%; profits in the glass business (whose fortunes are closely tied to Detroit's) seem to be up 150% or so. Even railroads and some airlines are showing modest gains. Metals producers are lagging: U.S. Steel's profits fell 46.5% in the first quarter...
Around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Drickamer's telephone rang and a voice at the other end said, "You don't know who I am, but if you call WCOZ within five minutes, you'll win a bike," Drickamer recalled yesterday...
...turbulent. After Carter took New Hampshire, labor leaders started urging Humphrey to enter the race. After the Massachusetts primary, the liberals began calling. After Carter won Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, everybody called: Governors, Congressmen, party leaders. When the polls showed Carter pulling even with Humphrey, the phone almost rang off the hook. Says Dave Gartner, Humphrey's top aide: "We've got a thousand campaign managers out there...
Drained by the ordeal, Kissinger returned to his office. The phone rang. It was Nixon. Following custom, Kissinger's aide Larry Eagleburger listened on an extension-and was appalled. The President was drunk, rambling. Eagleburger hung up. The distraught Nixon requested of Kissinger: "Henry, please don't ever tell anyone that I cried and that I was not strong...
...selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million in sales to the Japanese last year...