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...Night Shift. Most Wall Street firms have abandoned their traditional 9-to-5 day, working clerical staffs overtime and Saturdays, often hiring night shifts to help with the load. Even with newly instituted training programs, brokers complain that they cannot find enough qualified help, though able receiving and billing clerks often earn $200 a week. "Clerical workers no longer apply for a job," says Vice President Charles Rosenthal of L. M. Rosenthal & Co. "They come over for coffee and doughnuts and discuss their careers...
...Macon, Ga., the Burns Brick Co. uses two robots to handle 8,000 bricks an hour, a work load ordinarily requiring seven men; each of the robots plucks eight bricks at a time off a table, then drops them gently onto cars carrying them to kilns for baking. General Motors employs a robot to move heated steering linkage rods into forging dies. Ford uses one to paint engines, while robots at Corning Glass Works pick up dinnerware after it has been decorated and put it onto a conveyor belt...
During the year following Pearl Harbor the United States girded itself for war. It wasn't like the last time, though. There was less cheering as the boys marched off, and more fear. But still the nation pulled together, and Harvard resolutely took up her share of the load...
...later, the Garretts drove back to Buffalo with Amy and all her possessions-a suitcase load of clothing, three dolls and a Teddy bear...
...scrambles Chris Flanders (Burton), a footloose maker of poems and mobiles who has been on hand for the demise of so many members of the jet set that he has earned the sobriquet "Angel of Death." In Williams' play, Chris was a handsome young man freighted with a load of Saviour symbolism. The Christ aspect has been mercifully muted in the movie, but there is still plenty of mystical mystification in the role. It seems that his vocation-conferred on him by a holy man in Baja California-is to help people ease their way into death, and Flora...