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...quick way to boost copper imports, either. The U.S. last May shelved its 2?-a-lb. tariff, and agreed to pay a premium price of 27½? for Chilean copper, which accounts for most U.S. imports. But the U.S. also had to agree to let Chile sell a big chunk of her copper in Europe and elsewhere, where the price has been as high as 50? a Ib. Result: imports have dropped...
...biggest chunk of employment in the college is provided by the dining hall, called the Commons. Each year over 250 students--mostly freshmen and sophomores--earn between $300 and $440 each by acting as waiters or servers in the Commons where underclassmen eat. (Juniors and seniors take meals at their clubs...
...today, the CCA looks like a favorite in the race. For one thing, it has a battling president, James F. Mahan, a former F.B.I. man and presently a Boston attorney. He will probably attract a good chunk of Cambridge's Irish vote...
ULRICH HABERLAND, 50, is the temperamental boss of Leverkusen's huge Bayer works (biggest single chunk of the I. G. Farben chemical empire now being decartelized). Ex-Nazi son of an East German clergyman, he now claims to be apolitical. He is the reviving chemical industry's chief business strategist...
...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...