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...gadgets become increasingly complex-and the repair bills mount-every businessman is attacking the problem at all levels, from the small local repair shop up to the factory production line. Philco, Motorola and other manufacturers have found that it is often better to scrap the inevitable lemons that crop up in every model than try to repair them. Sears, Roebuck recently exchanged a Dallas customer's TV set five times before both company and customer were satisfied. To eliminate a troublesome production error, Norge spent thousands of dollars changing the transmissions in 27,000 washing machines. Major companies have...
...Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge puttered about, asking questions, probing into the testimony, checking visibility and distances...
Fulfilled was the Air Force's prayerful hope: Thor, at long last, had been successfully fired. A special top-level Defense Department committee, set up to settle the rivalry between Thor and its Army counterpart, Jupiter, was pondering whether to scrap one of the two intermediate-range (1,500-mile) ground-to-ground ballistic missiles or combine them in a hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third...
...that was about all the U.S. felt able to do last week about a gratuitous insult that rose out of a scrap among young Syrian army leftists, who currently wield power but do not have responsibility in Syria. They appear so unanimously bent on turning their country into the Middle East's first Soviet satellite that to hang a big lie on the U.S. is to score a point or two in the infighting. The army intelligence crowd, led by the mysterious left-winger, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, put out the plot story in an apparent effort...
What keeps this clumsy, costly apparatus from the scrap heap is longstanding political regard for the farm vote. Understandably, U.S. farmers have learned to use political power to make up for economic weakness. Unlike big unions, farmers have no collective bargaining power. Unlike big corporations, they cannot control the supply of their products. When the nation's farms produce too much wheat, an individual farmer cannot keep the price up by holding part of his crop off the market: even a big farmer's share of the total wheat supply is a thimbleful in a carload...