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...internal losses" amounting to 2,500,000 gallons of beer worth 40 million rubles-owing in part to on-the-job consumption. In order to make up their quota, they began putting water in the Zhiguli (named for a Volga River beauty spot). Even after a state inspector popped in unexpectedly and found the water content too high, brewery officials and workers kept pouring it in. When a formidable team of ministry investigators moved in, officials tried to get out of the mess by cutting the beer's aging period from 21 days to 3, using extra malt, juggling...
Given the stubborn resistance of caste to the most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called at the U.S. embassy to borrow a sample broom to be used in inviting bids from manufacturers...
...Inspector, De Hartog...
...recouping the production cost) by Budweiser and Rheingold beers, will be shown on U.S. screens this fall. Another sales success: a Canadian Mountie series, snapped up by 20 U.S. cities the first week it was shown. Coming soon: a crime series based on Simenon's Inspector Maigret. Meanwhile ITV, far from dawdling on its domestic dollies, is cranking up its own shows for export to the U.S. (Robin Hood is an ITV series already seen on American screens...
...around it by staying away from work on the grounds of "sickness." TWA, American Airlines and Pan American got a restraining order from a federal district court in Chicago, requiring pilots to comply with the FAA order. But the pilots were not happy. Growled one captain to an FAA inspector: "I don't want you here at all, but we're under a court order, so sit down...