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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hottest movie in the U.S. right now is Survive! In three weeks it has grossed $6 million, and it may rank with the nastiest 90 minutes ever to appear on the screen...
...Left Bank, the elegantly tailored Yves drives himself to work each morning in a dark blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible. (Berge, as the business manager, goes to the office in a chauffeured Rolls.) Settled in at Y.S.L. headquarters, a huge, four-story town-house on Avenue Marceau that must rank as one of the world's most elegant office buildings, Yves hunkers over a small (3 ft. by 4 ft.) folding worktable that is as meticulously arranged...
Today profits, far from being too high, are still too low to ensure the nation's continued economic health. Among the top 20 industrialized countries, the U.S. in recent years has fared badly in terms of new industrial investment per capita; only Luxembourg and Britain rank lower. As a result, the U.S. may already, in fact, have become enmeshed in an intolerable economic dilemma in which the nation's private employers no longer create enough new jobs to absorb young workers coming into the labor force...
Brucker, 47, and Watson, 45, are cavers of the first rank. For nearly two decades they belly-crawled toward what they call "the Everest of world spelology," a presumed connection between Kentucky's vast Flint Ridge cave system and neighboring Mammoth Cave. The possibility of such a connection must have occurred to Floyd Collins, the solitary caver who discovered Great Crystal Cave under Flint Ridge in 1917 and who died in nearby Sand Cave in 1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. Collins' grisly death stirred the nation's curiosity, and for years tourists in Crystal...
Consequently, U.A.W. leaders have talked surprisingly little about wages. Instead, they have made job security their No. 1 demand, responding to membership wishes. As one rank and filer succinctly puts it: "I got a wife and four kids. If they make sure I keep working, I'll be happy with any contract...