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...High. Other automakers are also putting on the brakes. The industry's supply of unsold cars last week stood at 69 days, a record tempered only technically by the fact that the figure is based on current small daily volume and could shrink rapidly if the pace picks up. Ford, with a 50% third-quarter profit decline and an early November sales dropoff of 36%, is also reducing its work force; layoffs could reach 54,000, including at least 3,000 white-collar staffers in Dearborn. GM's layoffs now total 53,000, and last week the company...
...shrink will not stand up. Here he is, at a tenants' meeting of Co-Op Village, which he has agreed to address on the psychology of rape. He just sits on the rostrum, arms folded, waiting for his check. Only when one of the tenants breathlessly delivers his fee does he start in-and what a start. He leaps up, shoots a blank pistol out into the audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience...
...women keep diaries? Listen to a shrink. Better yet listen to two. When asked what a normal person should be able to do, Freud answered "to love and to work." When asked about the relation of woman's mental health to her productive activity, Otto Rank replied that "when the neurotic woman gets cured she becomes a woman. When the neurotic man gets cured he becomes an artist." Many women's diaries were born of the madness of the double standard so preciously summarized in these musings...
...further-setting an auto-mileage goal of 33 m.p.g., for instance, and imposing a sales tax on energy-the nation could cut the growth of energy usage to zero by the year 2000, the report says. The foundation team calculates that even reducing the growth rate to 2% would shrink oil imports by 1985 to a mere 2 million...
Mary's predicament is not unique. From the 1930s into the early 1950s, doctors considered low doses of X ray a safe, effective way to shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting...