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With quiet desperation, they are living out a horror story, the seventh age of man. It is strikingly like the first age. They chat a lot, but it is much like babies' babble, unfinished, noncom-municative. They tire easily and plop down like small children at the first available resting place. Mealtime is the pinnacle of the day. In between, they conduct a kind of innocuous sandbox flirtation, brief as a toddler's attention span, with two women inmates, Dandy Nichols and Mona Washbourne, one of whom has a reputation for wetting herself. At odd, unprovoked moments, each...
When Billy spars a few rounds with Ernie in the book's opening scene, the boy feels honored that he has "joined the company of men." In another age, Munger might have been a typical American golden boy, son of a tire recapper and a tireless, depleted mother, himself a gas station attendant, possessed of a muscled torso and a solemn, black-haired girlfriend (later wife) who holds back her sex until he confesses his love. But in 1969, cruising with fellow loafers past drive-ins and hamburger stands, boxing a few stumblebums for the cash it pays, Ernie...
...there are no signs of a shift in Washington's policy of nonrecognition. It is a policy, as its critics never tire of pointing out, that contains a measure of absurdity by pretending that China is actually governed by Taiwan. Ten or 15 years ago, Mao's regime might have agreed to fudge the Taiwan issue in exchange for diplomatic relations with the U.S., but today Peking would very likely insist that Washington break off with the Nationalist government...
Companies in many other industries are also hurting. Michigan's Kelsey-Hayes Co., which makes auto parts, has laid off 1,000 of its 5,000 workers. Uniroyal, the tire manufacturer, has let 1,900 employees go for the duration. The Grand Trunk Western Railroad has thinned out its work force by 600 men, and the Penn Central, with its largest single customer out of operation, has been affected "seriously" and cut back some of its operations. Several of the advertising agencies that handle G.M. accounts have decreed pay slashes. Chevrolet's agency, Campbell-Ewald, for instance...
...Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine; Cerro Corp., with $15 million in copper investments; and ITT, with $200 million or more in the Chilean telephone system, a cable company and two Santiago hotels. Others are the Dow Chemical Co., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., the General Tire and Rubber Co. and North American Rockwell Corp. The pace of Allende's actions will also depend on the state of the economy. "The more his back is to the wall," says one American economist, "the more likely he will be to move harshly and quickly." Few American managers expect...