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...North Portico. Sandy has been the White House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled off. His tummy is the creation of his daughter Debbie, who glued together several pieces of foam rubber and sewed it all up in red cotton for the benefit of the republic...
...better transit system for a city of 200,000 than a first-class bus system?"asks GM's Gerstenberg. The car manufacturers' self-interest is obvious?they are the big busmakers?but they have some convincing statistics. The auto has brought about such a gigantic demographic dispersion that only rubber wheels can effectively tie a metropolitan area together...
...Real personal income will stagnate as unemployment rises, the cost of living increases, and overtime work be comes rarer. The decline in income will cut painfully deep in regions heavily dependent on industries hit hard by the oil weapon, such as autos, steel and rubber...
...around Christmas as plants close to shift production from standard-sized autos to fuel-saving small cars. The Big Three announced last week that November sales totaled 772,795 units, down a startling 118,000 from a year earlier. Layoffs are also spreading into supplier industries: Davidson Rubber Co., the largest employer in Dover, N.H., will furlough 200 of its 1,400 employees for at least two months because of waning orders from the automakers who buy its arm rests and other components. In Pennsylvania, 3,000 employees of Leeds & Northrup, an electronics firm, will be idled for a week...
...there was no place to go; the French made no real attempt to industrialize Vietnam. Their efforts were confined mainly to using taxes collected from the peasants to widen roads and improve ports in order to speed rice exports. And in the only industrial enterprise of any significance--the rubber plantations in the South--conditions were even worse than in the rural villages. The workers there were slaves: they worked long hours, were fed next to nothing, and could be murdered by guards at whim. Of 45,000 people who worked in one plantation between...