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...obscure truck driver until he was killed in an accident last August, but today Lei Feng is Red China's newest folk hero. Otherwise celebrated as the Forever Rustproof Screw, young Communist Lei Feng soared to posthumous fame when party officials conveniently discovered a 200,000-word diary that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service...
...Queen had other troubles. Second Mate David Fike told of a ruptured steam coil in one of the tanks, of inoperative automatic temperature gauges, and of worn packing around the screw. Though the ship was scheduled for a drydock inspection in January, the visit was postponed. The Queen, one of the T-2 tankers of World War II vintage, had a characteristic "weak back," and had to be checked carefully for keel fractures. The drydock inspection was postponed, said Fike, because Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., to whom the ship was chartered, "was behind in its orders of sulphur. The captain...
...into a delicate science. G.M. plots its operations department by department four months in advance, budgets man-hours and unit parts down to a fraction of a penny. Under this system, G.M.'s financial men also dog the designers, figure the cost of every bolt, chrome strip and screw, and have unit costs tallied well in advance of final pricing. G.M. thus knows its break-even point precisely: when it sells 2,500,000 units or achieves $7 billion in net sales. In 1962 it sold 2,739,000 beyond that point-and the profit on each additional vehicle...
...epilogue to a small history which began last winter when the CRIMSON published a letter from a student in the College who had received bad seats for an athletic contest and who charged that the H.A.A., and ticket manager Frank Lunden in particular, were engaged in a conspiracy to "screw" students out of good seats for hockey games and swimming meets...
...professor of history; she, six years older, is the prexy's daughter. She has invited a new young couple over for a nightcap; and while waiting for the guests to arrive, there is some joking and joshing. But as the youngsters enter, they hear a wrought-up Martha hurl "Screw you!" across the room at her husband. Nick (George Grizzard), aged 30, is a new member of the biology department; his wife Honey (Melinda Dillon) is four years younger. At first they are onlookers, but before long they find themselves sucked into the vortex of a maelstrom. The fun refuses...