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...1950s. Boulwarism calls for management to make and stick to an initial "firm, fair" offer to employees and to attempt to convince workers of the offer's merits by conducting vigorous "employee marketing" campaigns. Union loyalists have long regarded this strategy as an attempt by the company to fix wage rates unilaterally, but the many unions representing G.E. workers were too divided to challenge the tactic effectively. Then last fall they formed a coalition and won the unconditional support of the whole labor movement for a battle...
FERTILIZERS. To boost crop production, nitrogen fertilizers are spread liberally on California's superb farm lands. Just as people get hooked on drugs, so the soil seems to become addicted to chemical additives and loses its ability to fix its own nitrogen. As a result, more and more fertilizer has to be used. What makes the problem doubly serious is that the nitrates eventually turn up in the water supply, where they endanger human health...
...divided into sub-sub groups by age and politics. CRIMSON editors and former CRIMSON editor types hang out together and make cynical remarks and jokes and act very irreverent. McCaffery and Croft are always in the background, but they know just as much as everyone else. The television people fix their equipment and film lead-ins and sum-ups. And the older newspapermen talk together, but I am not sure what about...
...girl did return with a tow-truck after about an hour and a half. One and Two rode on the back of the truck and the girl and I rode in the cab with the driver. The driver was going to try to fix the car at his station, and if he couldn't, he'd take us to a Volvo dealer in Albuquerque. The girl said something to me, but for the benefit of the driver, about how she wished her "father" had gotten the car checked out before she left L. A. By this time, I was quite...
...Massachusetts, people who are fast-talked by door-to-door salesmen into signing contracts for unwanted goods can now cancel the deal within ten days. California's Department of Professional and Vocational Standards has instituted a television-repair inspection system that has trimmed $15 million a year from fraudulent fix-it bills. The department tests the honesty of any suspicious repair outfit by planting deliberately broken sets in private homes; if the repairman makes unnecessary charges, his license is lifted...