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...Lloyd's of London, Israeli insurance firms were underwriters for $50,000 worth of policies held by Middle East Airlines on planes that were destroyed. Thus, ironically, Israel will pay part of the nearly $18 million that MEA will collect. It is Lebanon's only cause for cheer. For the reverberations from the raid brought an internal crisis to the tiny nation last week, along with the prospect of being drawn against its will into the whirlpool of Middle East hostilities...
...industrial average sank for the fourth straight week. A 26-point loss reduced the average to 925, wiping out all its gains since mid-September. From its early December peak, the Dow has slipped 60 points, or 6%. Brokers generally see little on the economic horizon to provide much cheer...
...Christmas Eve when men were making their first try for the moon, the circumstances of the crew's release quenched any euphoria about changed human nature. The depressing implications of a diplomatic world where pre-denied confessions are used and accepted were as great as the humanitarian cheer over the crew's release...
...Anglo-Saxon." In other words, the Premier, who is a member of France's Protestant minority, is too austere, cool and reserved to inspire much sense of confidence in the French people. At De Gaulle's behest, Couve went on the radio last month to try to cheer the French. The most encouraging thing that the elegant aristocrat could offer was that "things really aren't all that...
...sales will surpass the all-time peak of 9,300,000 set in 1965. Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share...