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...West German wage rates, for example, have risen 33% since 1958, compared with an increase of only 16% in Britain. In cash wages, industrial workers in Britain average 77? an hour, more than in any Common Market country except little Luxembourg. But fatter fringe benefits in Europe make actual labor costs higher-3? an hour more in France, 15? in Germany-than Britain's 87? average...
...providing jungle bases for Communist guerrillas. Last fall the two nations severed diplomatic relations after Thailand's Soldier Premier Sarit Thanarit likened Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk to a pig. In a speech, Sihanouk retorted that though he might look like a pig, Sarit was a fatter pig. If soup were made of the two leaders, sneered Sihanouk, the soup made from Sarit would taste better...
...would be retrained for other jobs within the steel industry. To spread available work, the union wanted less overtime, more holidays, longer vacations, paid sabbaticals. Higher wages were only vaguely mentioned. The union is aware that its members want job security more than raises (their pay envelopes are already fatter than those of workers in any other production industry) and would rather collect layoff benefits (which now run as high as 65% of after-tax pay) than the union's meager strike benefits...
...food. Barely 15 years old, Paulucci's Duluth-based Chun King Corp. now rings up more than half of all U.S. sales of packaged Chinese food. Chun King's gross climbed 15% to $30 million last year, and Paulucci-who owns the whole company-expects a still fatter gain this year...
...peasants of Binhdinh province say the rats this year are thick as a man's leg from eating the crops. Is there no rat poison available? Yes, there is the kind sold by the government for $1.65 a lb., but it seems to make the rats fatter and healthier. A better poison is sold by merchants for $3 a lb.-too expensive. Actually, both are the same-but the one poison has been diluted to ineffectiveness by government officials who sell the real thing on the black market...