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...weeks ago announced that its profits for the first half of 1975 nearly doubled from a year earlier, to $24.7 million, but this is based partly on cost calculations that assume Lockheed will eventually sell 300 TriStars; whether it can is in serious doubt. Lockheed still bears a debt load of nearly $1 billion. The current scandal seems as unlikely to unhorse Chairman Daniel Haughton, who has headed Lockheed since 1967, as any of the company's former crises. His defenders on the board of directors believe Haughton is not personally responsible for many of the company...
Daniel, Bridget and I followed Peg up to his tiny, one-room cabin. A loaded shot-gun and squat, scoped hunting rifle hung over the door, a long-necked banjo and the Thompson over the bed. Peg turned on his tape deck, gave Peanut a piece of licorice, and pulled out the Thompson's clip: 90 rounds a minute of bloated, stumpy bullets. Peanut cried and Pegleg picked his banjo and Daniel got down on the floor where the child was and then wasn't when her mother picked her up, and said how she had the life and wasn...
...daily pills for one week out of every six, she has been able to ignore the disease and it has made no reappearance since her operation. She also suffers from a painful arthritic back, but even that rarely darkens her spirits. Despite her husband's mammoth work load, she finds that it has not come between them. "Evenings we usually spend together, both working while we sit in the den or maybe watch TV," she says. She also has unique occasions to lobby the President. "You might call it 'pillow talk,' " she says with a grin...
Much of the inefficiency in the food distributing machinery is beyond the industry's control. Teamsters union regulations mean that many trucks deliver small shipments to stores each week, when a few fully loaded trucks could do the job. The typical supermarket receives 200 trucks every week; each shipment has a wholesale value of about $50, and costs the store $5 to process in paper work alone. Rules imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission often require vans to return from their destinations empty, rather than let them pick up an available load. The National Commission on Productivity estimates that...
...fishing cabin Briggs rented last summer, we repack the van. In its bag, the head is baleful and timid, and I fondle it while unloading. Out of its bag, the head smells like a 2 a.m. urinal with broken plumbing and I kick dust over it. Briggs and I load it on the front of the van, between the bikes on the bike rack. Thick, greasy and matted, the hair on the skull sticks out like a crown's wig. Twisted slightly down and to the right, the head leers out before us as we drive back to West, blowing...