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...omnipotent labor unions that are the Perónists' power base. Explains Edgardo Catterberg, Alfonsín's adviser on public opinion: "If you want to create a democratic society, you have to have democratic unions." The attempt to proceed against the juntas has produced scant results beyond the detention of a few officers, although a newly established military tribunal has until the end of June to take action. And a bill that would have required democratic elections to fill union leadership positions was defeated in the Senate last March...
More mixed economic signals appeared last week. One day after reporting that personal income rose a scant .5% in March, the Government announced that the gross national product grew by an astonishing 8.3% in the first quarter of 1984. That was far above the Commerce Department's 7.2% preliminary estimate, and stunningly higher than the 5%-to-6% forecast for growth that most private economists had made. The gain in the G.N.P. was due primarily to higher inventories, a continuation of vigorous consumer spending and a hefty boost in federal farm subsidies...
Some major corporations with only scant connection to high technology are getting into the software business. Late last year McKesson, the drug and healthcare giant (1983 sales: $4 billion), acquired a half interest in SKU, a software distributor. Both CBS and Warner Communications have started software units. Also investigating or developing their own software are publishing nouses (Simon & Schuster and Random House), toy firms (Fisher-Price and Parker Bros.) and movie companies (United Artists, MCA, Walt Disney and Lucasfilm). But small firms seem to do best in the innovative world of applications programs. Cautions Software Publishing's Fred Gibbons...
...Crimson cashed in its 10 runs on just eight hits, and stranded only four runners, bringing new meaning to the word "scrappy". Meanwhile, junior Charlie Marchese and freshman Chris Marchok teamed to allow the Eagles a scant five hits...
...when the auditions start, there are hundreds of people standing in the drizzle outside Broadway's Royale Theater. By midday, as the skies clear, the line has grown to perhaps 1,000. They wait for hours for the chance to spend, in most cases, scant minutes standing onstage before being rejected and hastened out the door. A few are on a lark, and some may be on a mystical private trip: one young woman wears a lifelike head-to-toe bear costume, which she refuses to take off even to dance. But most are serious of purpose, and many...