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...Just stay right there," a registration worker yelled at Armand, while other workers tried to evacuate the hall. He reached under the table and pressed an alarm button. All around the "G-M" table red lights flashed, sirens blared, and registration workers sprayed disinfectant. Within seconds, two men in white uniforms sandwiched Armand...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Just stay right there," a registration worker yelled at Armand, while other workers tried to evacuate the hall. He reached under the table and pressed an alarm button. All around the "G-M" table red lights flashed, sirens blared, and registration workers sprayed disinfectant. Within seconds, two men in white uniforms sandwiched Armand...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...Just stay right there," a registration worker yelled at Armand, while other workers tried to evacuate the hall. He reached under the table and pressed an alarm button. All around the "G-M" table red lights flashed, sirens blared, and registration workers sprayed disinfectant. Within seconds, two men in white uniforms sandwiched Armand...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Industrial Nirvana | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Hitler mustaches and other graffiti. After Film Director Werner Schroeter reportedly suggested that someone should feed Strauss a bomb disguised as a sausage, the city of Augsburg withdrew his commission to stage an opera there. In Regensburg and Munich, some factory workers have been fired for wearing anti-Strauss buttons. An 18-year-old schoolgirl in Regensburg was expelled for refusing to take off her "Stop Strauss" button. Meanwhile, pens emblazoned with Strauss's party emblem were handed out in another Bavarian school-without protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Polemics and Poisonous Blossoms | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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