Word: favored
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Alien Provisions. Whether the E.T.U.'s capitulation proves to be a lasting victory for Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath depends on whether or not the Court of Inquiry rules in favor of the Electricity Council, which had offered the workers only $4.80 more a week. Nonetheless, Heath's success in preserving his hard line has for the moment given pause to imminent inflationary wage claims by other nationalized public workers, including employees of Britain's railway, post office and waterworks. It has also increased his personal popularity. A Gallup poll taken during the E.T.U. slowdown indicated that...
Highway Robbery. For automakers, 1970 was the toughest year in at least a decade. Buyers spurned big models in favor of less profitable compacts, minicars and fast-increasing imports (now 15% of the U.S. domestic market). Restive dealers grumbled over what they considered to be excessive factory control, reductions in their price markups, and the "dumping" of unwanted cars on their sales lots. Discontented customers demanded more reliability and easier repair-at a time when management found it increasingly hard to maintain quality output in their plants, in great part because of worker unrest. The eight-week strike against General...
...like jewelry and furs and a shift to cheaper and more practical gifts like electric hair combs and digital clocks. In Manhattan, Lord & Taylor advertised a selection of gifts-nothing over $8. Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
...with youth and Middle America. The son of upper-middle-class parents, Adam flees his plush Los Angeles home for a summer in the heartland. He winds up in Missouri, where he gets a job with a road gang and meets one of those teenage girls (Lee Purcell) who favor pink and pigtails, and announce with pride: "I was valedictorian of my high school class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them. The film is too slick by half...
...indoor doing-in record was set by Surgeon William Palmer, who got away with no fewer than six and very possibly as many as 14 murders. He overextended himself with the deaths of his wife and brother shortly after he had procured insurance policies on them in his favor...