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...reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms and pool halls and in the company of prostitutes and winos. He knows that his job. "to watch barge rats and walk the wet steel edges," is dangerous, and the casualties of river accidents haunt him. But he resigns himself to an existence like the other river workers, who "are on for a month, off for a month and if they are lucky...can live that way for the rest of their days...
According to Mondale, today's protectionism will guarantee tomorrow's free trade. Excluding cheap imports, he claims, will allow us to develop "fully competitive auto and steel industries in the 1990s" and prevent unemployment in the interim. Once American auto and steel industries become competitive with those of other countries, the need for projectionist trade barriers will simply fade away. Until then, though, moderate protectionism is the only way to prevent "irresistible demands for harsh and damaging legislation." In addition, by waving the club of American trade barriers over the heads of our allies, Mondale believes we will intimidate them...
Worse, it will damage other industries. When one industry gains protection from foreign competition, other industries have to pay increased prices for the products of the protected industry, which in turn damages the competitiveness of the consuming industries. The car companies, for example, have to buy more expensive steel because of trade barriers which product the steel industry...
...sacred duty. The former reporter, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1961, is now noted for the objectivity of his portraits of the youthful Winston in Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry and of the aged Willie in Maugham. But they are edged with steel. Morgan, 50, feels that either love or hate is a dangerous conceit. Says he: "You have to be clinical, like a coroner dissecting a corpse." His scalpel reveals a Churchill swollen with hubris and a stingy Maugham pathologically concealing his homosexuality from the public. Morgan, like his colleagues, perceives his subjects...
...back to when the pole was a pretty stable instrument," he explains. Warmerdam's first bolt of bamboo carried him over high hedges and cringing livestock all across his father's spinach farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. His records were built of bamboo; steel and aluminum poles came along in the '50s, fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record has been improved by leaps and sproings. But the 19-ft. ¾in. outdoor mark of that aptly named Russian Vladimir Polyakov has been posted over a year and a half...