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Worst First. Typically, the inspector uses noisemeters to tell whether the thrumming of machines could harm workers' ears, checks other instruments to detect potentially explosive gas leaks, and looks for missing guards on presses that can chop off an arm in a second. What have inspectors found? No eye washes in battery-charger areas, storage racks piled so high that they could fall on a worker, and no protective hearing devices...
...REAL INSPECTOR HOUND and AFTER MAGRITTE...
...first play, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern Are Dead, had those two pitiably bewildered title characters trying to figure out what the devil was going on in the castle at Elsinore. His new playlets are dramatic trifles compared to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but the longer and better one, The Real Inspector Hound, is highly diverting. (The brief curtain raiser, After Magritte, simply reduces the deductive process to a bundle of false clues that turn the characters, as well as the lines, into absurdist non sequiturs...
Visibly moved by the evident decline of a famous family, the embarrassed agent left, and the subsequent tax settlement was sympathetically small. Meantime, the prince retrieved his priceless paintings and handmade clothes from the portiere, or janitor, who had helpfully hidden them when the inspector called...
...more and more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...