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...Mike Covington, her Navy casualty assistance officer. On Saturday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, she was clipping her West Highland terrier Tammy when the phone rang. "Hi, Phyllis," the voice said, "this is Mike. He's on the list to come out in the first bunch...
...earth did we join?" asks one English expatriate in exasperation. "That bunch in the Common Market is making life harder, not easier. The next thing you know they'll be tampering with English beer." Little does he know. English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed. If the decision is no, Whitbread's, Bass and Watney's could also be banned from the Common Market...
...Operation Breakthrough did underwrite some production, but the department never laid out anywhere near as much money as builders had expected. Says Kenneth D. Campbell, president of Audit Investment Research, which specializes in real estate: "It wasn't really an industry at all. Just a bunch of companies with big hopes.' Some companies like Behring and Potlatch took great pains in design mg and equipping their plants, only to find that they could not generate enough volume to cover their investment and high fixed operating costs...
...harsh measures that are aimed at creating what they call a "war economy." Two weeks ago Allende publicly conceded that his management of the country's economy has been ill-planned. He also castigated his biggest constituency, Chile's workers, chiding the miners for "acting like a bunch of monopolistic bankers" in their wage demands, and criticized bureaucrats for failing to improve government efficiency. To curb the groggy effects of alcohol on the workers, Allende last week threatened to ration beer. No teetotaler himself, Allende said: "The housewives of Chile will erect a monument in my honor...
...were so futile. In May of 1971, the U.S. government could round up 7000 Washington demonstrators in one day--10,000 in a week--and get away with it. Nixonian Washington had so undermined the credibility of students and the Left by then that most Americans visualized only a bunch of crazed hippies roaming the streets of the Capitol. A handful of people, such as those who marched in the Civil Rights movement a decade ago, understood the frustration felt by Mayday protesters. I remember writing The Crimson's stories from Washington, typing sentences that told of outdoor detention centers...