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WRISTON: The British sent a group of chartered accountants to Japan for a six-month study to find out what it costs to build a tanker there. At the end of six months they had had a lot of hot baths and a lot of polite conversation, but they did not find out the real costs. A platoon of cost accountants could make it a life's work and still not find...
...WORK required of HVD members is rarely exciting and often monotonous, but next year's officers expressed general satisfaction with the organization's policy. "You always wonder whether it's worth working your tail off whereas in most cases you'll only cut a guy down from a six-month suspended sentence to a three-month suspended sentence," says Katz. "It's surprising how we always tell them we're students, not attorneys, but maybe it's the name of Harvard and they think we're good, or they've gotten inadequate representation in the past. I've never known...
...enthusiastic endorsement of sabotage" like the bombing. A grand jury, insisting it did not want Knops' sources, summoned him to testify in its investigation. He refused, citing the Fifth, First and 14th amendments. The Wisconsin courts accepted none of them, and Knops served four months of a six-month jail sentence before he was freed last December for an appeal. With the support of the American Civil Liberties Union, he has now gone before the U.S. District Court in Milwaukee with the claim that he has a journalist's privilege to silence. But his affinity for radicals...
...life: a poor, fatherless adolescence; ten restless years as a chiropractor, a calling that he gave up because the hours were too long; 27 years as a technician for Mobil Oil, interrupted by frequent golf and fishing trips; the death, on his retirement, of his wife; and then a six-month Grand Tour, followed by his return to Santa Barbara, where he slowly learned to cook his own meals and live alone...
...Netherlands' economists forecast for this year a rise in unemployment, a lower yield on invested capital, a drop in investments and a worsening balance of payments. A six-month freeze in wages has been imposed by the government to retard a 4% price rise. Dutch Minister of Social Affairs Bouke Roolvink recently went shopping with a disgruntled huisvrouw who had challenged him to stay within her inflation-socked budget. At the checkout counter he came up red-faced and $6 short...