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...chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., Joseph Wright has long been his industry's Jeremiah, warning congressional committees and many other audiences that U.S. electronics companies could not meet Japanese competition. Other domestic television manufacturers began to buy components from Japan or move their plants to the Far East. Wright, too, shifted most of Zenith's black-and-white set production from Chicago to Taiwan, and in mid-1971 he sadly announced that he would transfer color-set production as well. But he saw a much brighter picture as soon as the U.S. devalued the dollar, pressured Japan into...
Some 500 U.S. business and industrial firms have been experimenting with a four-day work week-an inventive concept that reconciles the work ethic with the leisure culture. For ten weeks during the summer, the Chicago-based Zenith Life Insurance Co. tried a four-day, 35-hour routine, with half of its 33 employees working Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the other half Tuesday through Friday. Now Zenith has pronounced the plan a startling success and made the arrangement permanent. Recruiting is easier, absenteeism reduced, overtime pay decreased and employee morale vastly improved...
...Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery mother-in-law with the heart of gold on the TV comedy series December Bride...
MERELY gaining effective control over China's 800 million people -a population twice the size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution. It was the climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform...
...little men who recall Falstaff's lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...