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...Rudolph Weingartner offered the "hope that nobody's grades depend on an extra two days." Like Harvard's mini-reading period, Northwestern's was the result of a scheduling fluke, and will return to full length in the future. Some, though, apparently benefit from the mandatory cram, chemistry lee turer Thomas Weaver reported that Winter Quarter grades for his courses went up after the shortened Reading Week. Daily Northwestern
Like every other U.S. manufacturer, General Motors confronts a new legal threat called "strict liability" - the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries without being proved guilty of negligence in the manufacturing proc ess (TIME, Aug. 6). Strict liability lurks behind hundreds of pending suits that claim that the rear axle of G.M.'s 1960-1963 Corvairs caused oversteering and sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended...
...necessarily, says Paradiso. "There is a much tighter relationship between inventory and sales than we have ever seen before." Where it once took a manufac turer months to shift his inventory position-either because he was top-heavy with goods or could not quickly reorder -today's manufacturer has new methods and machines for inventory control that enable him to keep his inventories tight, move fast when he wants to make a change. In the past, says Paradiso, inventory tended to lag about six months behind sales; today it can be adjusted in a matter of days. "What happens...
...believe that the PHS would have good news about it. The in vestigating team did not repeat the whole testing procedure, which takes three months. Instead, it quizzed the technicians in the testing rooms. Team members not only again pored over the bulky "pro tocols" (elaborate reports from manufac turer to Washington, showing the result of every phase of every test); they also leafed through the underlying data...
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