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...basis for making decisions, though, they are perilous guidelines indeed; not even Lyndon Johnson, for all his poll watching, has been accused of making policy on the basis of polls. "We take them seriously up to a point, but pollsters have a long way to go in learning their trade," says William Roberts, partner in California's successful political public relations firm of Spencer-Roberts & Associates, which helped Ronald Reagan to victory. "In the meantime," he adds, "I predict they are going to keep on making a lot of money from all of us." That is one prediction that...
...York State's Catskill Mountains resort area, ten A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes, many have yet to support the civil rights drive as fervently as they might. Moreover, labor continues to be peculiarly apathetic about corruption. Last week in New York City, Martin Rarback, a painters...
...about the future of the program. "It will help ensure the excellence of Harvard College education as well as Harvard departmental education. If there is not balance and interaction between these two, a college atrophies. Harvard must keep providing the tools for an education as well as for a trade." He notes that increasing numbers of Faculty members have already been induced by the system's flexibility to offer new courses...
...building the U.S. SST could let the European plane grab the market. The stakes are huge, not only for industry but also for the precarious U.S. balance of payments. By Lockheed estimates, the world market for 900 SSTs by 1985 should bring the nation $38.6 billion in foreign trade...
Chile and Zambia account for about 65% of the copper traded on the free world market, and Kaunda and Frei figure that this gives them enough leverage to dictate prices. On the highly speculative London Metal Exchange, the cost of copper this year has ranged from 98? to 44? per lb. Basically, Chile and Zambia want to reduce their vulnerability to copper's wild price fluctuations. The swings have been made especially violent by demand and supply uncertainties resulting from strikes and, not least, the tension between Zambia itself and Rhodesia, which has virtually cut off Zambia...