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...Motors was the first to snap back at Mackie. Said President Romney: "In the matter of compact-car safety, 400 major U.S. insurance companies do not agree with Mr. Mackie. They offer a 10% lower rate for compact cars. Such compact factors as relative power, headlight and seating arrangement, etc., do not differ significantly [from the big cars]. The big-size differential is in the elimination of extensive front and rear overhang, which reduce vision and decrease handling ease. As to long-range car use and tax revenue, the compacts have greatly stimulated the automobile business...
...occupation, General MacArthur was somehow persuaded to let SCAP's Labor Division fasten onto Japan a set of labor-relations laws that gave Japanese unions a readymade war chest by imposing the dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators, who set about converting the labor movement into an anti-American political tool...
...statesmanlike dark suit, white shirt and sober, figured tie to deliver a major Senate speech on foreign policy. He laid down a twelve-point program that few could quarrel with (buildup of U.S. strength, closer relations with Latin America, new muscles for NATO, increased aid for underdeveloped nations, etc.). He pleased liberals with a proposal to "improve our communications with mainland China.'' And since foreign policy is Nixon's strength, Kennedy let fly with some blows at the foreign policy of the Administration-and Dick Nixon...
There are other reasons besides wages for going abroad. The International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which announced last week that it may soon resume sales of foreign-made consumer equipment (radios, appliances, etc.) in the U.S., is already bringing in automatic post-office equipment made by its Belgian and German subsidiaries. Reason: I.T. & T. says that the equipment is technically superior to any available in the U.S. Manhattan's Lafayette Brass Manufacturing
Moving overseas is not always easy. Many countries, such as Brazil and Peru, have tough labor laws that make it almost impossible to fire an incompetent worker, and others exercise strict control over investment. In some countries the problem is payola for government licenses, etc. Blueprint standards have to be changed, laws and languages learned...