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Then, around a bend in the road careened a modern-day death demon: a ten-ton truck, thundering along at 60 m.p.h., and towing another truck behind it on a steel cable. Either the brakes had failed or the drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side...
...clause affects all U.S. employers of 100 or more workers, a limit that will drop to 25 in three years. A new federal agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has been set up to enforce the antidiscrimination ban- and seems likely to become Washing ton's most embattled bureaucracy...
...shortages, as Castro's grey little island sinks deeper into economic chaos. "Anything that breaks remains broken," said a Havana clinic worker. "Anything that becomes useless remains useless." Supplies of clothing, shoes, medicine, meat are diminishing. Even coffee is declining; production this year will be only 25,000 tons, nearly 40% less than the pre-Castro average. What there is fetches a handsome price on a black market that is growing so big that Castro himself recently fumed: "There are some officials who use their own government vehicles to carry their pounds-little pounds or big pounds-of black...
...dropped most European steel prices toward their lowest level in ten years, yet the cost of production keeps rising. West German plants are forced by Bonn to use uneconomical coal from the Ruhr instead of cheaper U.S. imports; the difference causes a pricing disadvantage of up to $5 a ton in competition with incoming Dutch and Italian steel. Steel imports, as one result, have climbed from 15% of German sales to 25% in the past five years. French steelmakers must import 25% of their coke, pay a 15% to 20% duty...
...size of automaking-is unlikely to cause an inflationary spiral by itself. Even some Government economists concede that the industry has as good a case as any for higher prices: it is earning a mere 4.9% on its investment, is running at 100% of its 2,700,000-ton capacity. Its price boosts-three in the last two years-have not kept pace with its wage hikes; the most recent wage increase, a guidepostshattering 4% rise, was greeted with no outcry from Washington...