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Last week, as the Aug. 31 contract expiration date neared, the Big Three finally made their offers to the union. So complete was Big Three solidarity that a General Motors public relations man was overheard phoning his Chrysler counterpart to tell him that H-hour for the release of the statements had come. The offers were predictably identical: a guaranteed annual 6?-per-hour pay rise for increased productivity, a continuation of the cost-of-living escalator clause, an increase in unemployment benefits, and a moving allowance for transferred workers...
Household Ghosts probes delicately the many ways in which people can hurt each other and themselves. Its confrontations are as jarringly dramatic as an overheard quarrel, and its set pieces, especially a party at a small-town schoolhouse, are fine mixtures of humor and sadness...
...Overheard in the confusion: "... and then after a few cocktails he asked me where I went to college...
...come by his honors honestly was based on a strategic network of listening posts capable of tuning in on the actual countdown, long-range radar tracking stations that plotted the orbit of the satellite and could even estimate its size and weight, electronic eavesdropping that may have overheard Yuri's radio reports to earth, and, finally, traditional cloak-and-dagger espionage inside the Soviet Union...
Occasionally she expresses her professional grievances with a gag. Once she overheard a tenor telling an admirer that his "lovely, pure, full and beautiful" voice moved Miss Price to tears. "I hate to bring this up," said Leontyne, "but it is my voice so warm, full and beautiful that moves me to tears." Of a well-known soprano who decided to get married and retire, Leontyne asked: "Retire from what?" She has a great, saving capacity for laughing at herself, too. Back home last Christmas, she made a joke of helping at table at the Chisholms when the maids were...