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SAVE AMERICA, BUY AMERICA. Scores of delegates lined up at a telegraph booth to send wires supporting the proposed Foreign Trade and Investment Act of 1972. That bill would cut back tax advantages for U.S. corporations with plants overseas and set up a commission to draft a quota system aimed at keeping at 1965-69 levels any imports that start to win a sizable share of the U.S. market. As for President Nixon's 10% surcharge on foreign goods. United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel has called it "only a baby step in the right direction...
...always went to the same telephone booth in a gas station to make his calls. One day the owner's wife overheard him saying something about a painting. When he hung up, the owner tailed him on his motorcycle, while his wife called the police. The thief tried to cut across fields, but was finally caught cowering behind a heap of manure. The boy identified himself as Mario Roymans, 21. In his small apartment above a restaurant where he worked as a waiter, the lost Vermeer was found under his bed. Roymans' knife had sliced an inch...
...furtive rascal familiar to devotees of Grove Press. Instead he is Jake Masters (Allen Garfield), a very raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make a wig for a grape, and cowers before any weapon larger than an insult. Nevertheless, in accordance with the rules of soft-core pornography, he attempts to be Casanova in Jockey shorts. On the trail of an anonymous...
...They concluded that there was almost no way to do so, but the meeting drew crowds of newsmen?and headlines in the little cold war. Afterward, a staffer in the office of Charles Colson, a presidential counsel, put in a telephone call to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Arch Booth. He suggested that the chamber, in the interests of more efficient contract negotiations, call for the retirement of labor leaders over the age of 70. Booth quickly declined, and for good reasons, among them the fact that many of the executives active in the chamber are well beyond that...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...