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Only when the drinker refuses treatment or returns to steady elbow-bending is he fired. "An employer who frequently threatens termination, but does not follow through, furthers the alcoholic's continued drinking," Dr. D'Alonzo believes. "Sometimes this act [of firing] is the trigger that suddenly brings the alcoholic to his senses...
...into the present low-priced three, Detroit dopesters expect that they will certainly be bad news to what is left of the ailing middle-priced market. Says Cole: "The middle-priced field is sitting there with a gun to its head." Some middle-priced dealers have already pulled the trigger. New Orleans' leading Buick seller, Stephens Buick Co., fortnight ago surrendered its franchise and switched to Chevy...
Nikita Khrushchev holds in his raw hands great potential destructive force with a sensitive trigger. Realizing this threat, how can anyone afford to ignore him because of his past? Let's get down to the facts and put aside that which is not pertinent...
...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...Class Hatred." The outraged shouts were still resounding in the House chamber when another labor leader decided to get into the act. Trigger-tempered James Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers and a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., wrote a threatening letter to each of the 229 Representatives who had voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill. "We wish to assure you." wrote Carey, "that we shall do all in our power to prove to the working men and women in your district that you have cast your lot against them and they should therefore take appropriate...