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Layoffs & Shutdowns. Automakers, with sales 18% below their 1966 pace so far this year, are hardest hit. American Motors last week began a ten-day total shutdown, idling 12,000 employees in Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis. General Motors has laid off 4,760 people at six assembly plants. Ford, with 30,000 employees already working a week shortened to as little as three days, last week trimmed production further and announced it will furlough 2,000. Chrysler scheduled a week's shutdown for two plants next week...
...sooner had Paris showings ended than fashion editors and buyers flew back into New York last week, right into a ten-day marathon viewing of U.S. summer collections. What they saw was in many respects just as good as what they had seen in Paris, and in some ways -because U.S. designers are closer to the mass market-even better...
Extreme air pollution again darkened London in 1956, killing 1,000, and in 1962, claiming more than 300 lives. In 1953, a ten-day temperature inversion over New York City trapped so much air pollution that 200 excess deaths were attributed to the smog by Dr. Leonard Greenburg, then New York's commissioner of air pollution. Another New York smog in 1963 killed more than 400, and there were 80 excess deaths recorded in New York during a four-day siege over the last Thanksgiving Day weekend. Scientists suspect that thousands of deaths each year in cities all over...
Though Americans delight in newness, their interest in antiques continues to grow. One indication is that attendance at Manhattan's blue-ribbon, ten-day 1967 Winter Antiques Show, which opened last week, has doubled in the past decade and is expected to reach 30,000 this year. Another sign is inflation; prices in the past year have commonly risen 5% even greater if more people felt confident that they could distinguish fine pieces from fakes. Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy...
...worse when A.M.C. wound up fiscal 1966 with a $12,648,000 loss-its first since 1957. Finally, for all of Abernathy's cigar-chomping ebullience, sales of "Roy's Cars," as the new models are called at A.M.C., have been so disappointing as to force a ten-day shutdown of plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha...