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...when it concerns the rise of the accounting prodigies who took over in Detroit during the '50s. He argues that a closed world of numbers and cost accounting pioneered by men like onetime Ford President Robert McNamara (previously flayed by Halberstam for his role as Defense Secretary during the Viet Nam War) overrode the hands-on thinking that had propelled the automakers to greatness. Partly as a result, obliviousness to the implications of the oil crisis reigned, and even minimal maintenance of Detroit's sometimes ramshackle assembly lines was squeezed. Meanwhile, Nissan, with its original ungainly Datsun, and other Japanese...
Alongside Superman these days is a revitalized phalanx of old superfolk -- Batman, Spider- Man, Wonder Wom- an -- and a host of newer, more ambivalent heroes, such as Viet Nam Soldier Ed Marks and the sultry Elektra, a machine- gun-toting assassin. The proliferation of new wonderfigures is impressive: some 250 different comic-book titles, largely in the heroic vein, will be sold in the U.S. this year, up from about 190 in 1985. With a combined circulation of roughly 150 million, the comics are more popular than at any other time since the early '50s. That in turn means heftier...
Part of the reason for these "de-nationalized" races is that no major dilemmas are confronting the U.S. and galvanizing the electorate, no Viet Nam or Watergate, no nationwide economic bust or crisis of confidence. The lack of broad national themes might also explain why many politicians, hungry for hot issues, have exploited the war against drug abuse, farm woes or local concerns...
...scraped through the University of Maine at Orono, moonlighting as a dishwasher, Little League coach and gas- station attendant. He majored in English, minored in dramatics, marched for peace, voted Republican for the last time in 1968 ("I believed Nixon when he said he'd get us out of Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby...
...young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...