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Henry Ford, the man who is known in the history books for introducing the assembly line and decent factory wages--on the theory that well-paid workers could buy a mass-produced product--didn't much like the idea of outsiders telling him how to run his company. Nor did he like the idea of his own workers organizing into a union...
...CAMBRIDGE'S most serious problems are unemployment and a shortage of low and moderate-income housing. They have combined to make the city increasingly homogeneous, filled with well-paid professionals and a nationally famous educational elite...
...well Brennan's new hat will fit is another matter.* It is surely not one he is used to. Born and bred in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, given to plain speech laced with profanity, Brennan is a local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...
...many of whom acquired heavy habits in military canteens, where untaxed cigarettes sell for about 11? a pack. The disappearance of broadcast commercials seems to have had little effect one way or the other. A reason may be that during their final years of life, Madison Avenue's well-paid, glamorous advocates of cigarettes were answered by a host of public-service messages that cited the scarifying findings of medical research into smoking. Most of these effective anti-tobacco ads disappeared from radio and TV after the ban on cigarette commercials...
...Palme, committed to what he calls "increased equality" in Sweden, has promised legislation that will close the broad gap in job security, vacations, pensions and working conditions. To narrow the difference in wages, the dynamic young (44) Prime Minister has suggested that the biggest increases should go not to well-paid professionals but to those at the bottom of the wage scale...