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...union was the United Auto Workers, an organization that regularly increases the liquidity of its strike fund by selling off gilt-edged securities. The company was General Motors, whose annual sales would constitute a gross national product bigger than that of, say, Switzerland or South Africa if it were a country instead of the largest business corporation on earth. When the U.A.W. struck GM for two grim months in 1970, the U.S. economy nearly stopped dead in its tracks...
...much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans are discovering that this is what brings them together, not borders...
...Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians and Sardinians in the arid mezzogiorno (southland...
...Europeans to look down their noses at it because we, for the time being, have more successfully solved some problems of crime and environment. This is simply because American problems are on a much, much larger scale." Echoing Tocqueville, Revel and countless other fascinated tourists to the New World, Switzerland's Georges-Henri Martin, editor of La Tribune de Geneve, notes: "America is still our model, for better or worse. What happens there, we find, comes here later...
...Honey, 1962; Ulysses, 1967), who helped build his family's original 1908 investment in a Port Chester, N.Y., vaudeville house into the Walter Reade Organization, Inc., that now owns 80 U.S. movie theaters; of suffocation, after falling headfirst into a snow bank while skiing; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...