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Oddly, though, automen have seldom been so ebullient about the future of their industry. GM Chairman Thomas Murphy clings to a forecast of record U.S. car and truck sales in 1978. Ford is highly optimistic, with good reason: its sales in early December jumped 13% above those of a year ago, giving it about a third of the domestic market. The company will spend $2.5 billion next year to enlarge its plants, launching an expansion program that Chairman Henry Ford II describes as "bigger than anything we've ever tackled before in the 75-year history of the Ford...
Says Craig Claiborne, food editor of the New York Times: "Gourmet cooking at home is a movement that has arrived. Samuel Johnson's statement, 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' is suddenly becoming true in America. People are much more serious today about the quality of their lives, and their pleasures nowadays have to do with the quality of their lives." In Atlanta, says Jean Thwaite, food editor of the Constitution, "it's a real challenge and a status symbol to come up with something your company hasn't tasted before...
...recent years, the preproduction interview with a Broadway playwright has taken the place of the Shavian preface. Unlike the Shavian preface, it is rarely witty and seldom illuminating. Customarily, it sounds like last-minute plea bargaining from a man who feels that his pressagent has been negligent in plugging the upcoming show...
Dressed in double-knits, seldom smiling at first, they seemed uneasy recipients of the tributes and radical comradery offered by the Latinos gathered to meet them. They soon showed, however, that the unfamiliar cold weather and the brevity of exposure to this country, rather than a lack of revolutionary ardor or understanding, had caused their initial discomfort. Taking turns addressing the predominantly student audience, they talked at length and in depth about the roles of women and education in the Revolution today. They also quickly dispelled any doubt as to their ability to mix Marxism and religion...
Fortunately, this gender confusion can usually be corrected with sex-hormone therapy and delicate surgery. Because the treatment is seldom reversible, a mistake in picking the proper gender can have disastrous consequences in later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual...