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...business-page headlines last week were a relentless reminder of the gathering force of the current U.S. recession. With each passing day, the industrial landscape is increasingly marred by padlocked factory gates and smokeless smokestacks. Spreading from cotton mills in Georgia to lumber camps in Oregon, the slump has swiftly swelled the ranks of the jobless. The Labor Department announced last week that November's unemployment rate rose again, to 8.4%, the highest level in six years, up from 8% in October and 7% in July. This means that about 9 million Americans and their families are facing...
Others were less fortunate. Jack Turinsky, 41, of Anchorage, apparently had rushed into the 24th-floor hall, was overcome by fumes, struggled back to his nearly smokeless room and died there. Bruce Glenn, 47, of Plymouth, Minn., smashed open his 16th-floor window, dangled briefly from a sheet, then fell to his death on a third-floor deck. Harry Gaines, 69, and his wife Lorraine, 67, of Los Angeles, heeded the usual survival advice. They fled into their tenth-floor bathroom, shut the door, crammed wet towels under it and stuffed other towels into the air vents...
George Stephen, a boisterous man with a hearty appetite for just about anything cooked over a charcoal fire, could not find a smokeless barbecue grill that delivered the slow, even heat he wanted. So one day in 1951 he selected a steel spinning from the Chicago sheet-metal factory, Weber Bros. Metal, of which he was part owner. He had a foreman shape it into a bowl, fashioned a spherical cover, and installed the contraption in the backyard of his home in Mount Prospect...
Stephen is currently backing up his grill with a corny promotion campaign featuring TV spots and live demonstrations in shopping centers around the country, during which "Sammy Scorch" messes up a meal on an old-style barbecue while a nattily attired "Freddie Flavor" prepares smokeless dinners on his Weber...
Nobel had provided for the establishment of the Peace Prize in his will. Evidently, he was deeply troubled by the destruction caused by his invention of dynamite and smokeless gunpowder. Of all the 72 recipients of the prize since 1901, probably none comes closer than Sakharov to the spirit of Nobel's bequest. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov went on to become an indefatigable fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence...