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...smells so fraught with menace. At rush hour in the Times Square station, where eight of the city's busy lines converge, a man urinates against a wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from the blackness of the tunnel beyond. Smoke from a fire on a distant track wafts through the station. A crowded train from the Upper West Side sits simmering on another track for 20 minutes while static from a broken speaker drowns out the conductor's incomprehensible explanation...
...Family Album, Steel (1 last week...
...retire and take it easy," he says. "A couple of months later, they're dead." Not Iacocca. He has spent almost 39 years in America's pivotal industry, and he still glories in the hurly-burly of his factory floors, in the sheer quantities of capital ($2.8 billion) and steel (1.3 million tons) and humans (110,000 employees) that he must commit to producing 2 million vehicles a year. Iacocca likes it best when he can make managing a car company seem like a martial task, urgent and vast and possibly heroic...
...friend, a man I have a great respect for, and a man I think I can work comfortably with." Nor has Brock's record as Trade Representative been completely inimical to labor. While he argued strongly for free trade, Brock nevertheless negotiated voluntary import restrictions with foreign auto and steel producers. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt summed up Brock's assets with the observation: "I don't suppose we've had anybody in the party who's been more successful at reaching...
...magic once too often. A lot of people in Washington think Reagan must make another move on the deficits soon or risk a political gridlock of serious proportions. Lobbyist Charls Walker casts his practiced eyes out over the country and sees "increasing economic pain" in autos, steel, textiles, agriculture, chemicals and oil. "This thing could turn quickly," Walker counsels his clients. "Economic euphoria could vanish. This is not an issue that will wait for a solution. This needs presidential leadership...