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To Frenchmen, the 22-day Tour is not just a race; it is an obsession. It attracts upwards of 15 million spectators, boosts daily newspaper sales by 10%, virtually ensures a 40% boost in business for cafes and shops lucky enough to be located along the route. And it is...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman once summed up U.S. agriculture as half miracle and half mess. The miracle is the wondrous surge of farm productivity over the past few decades. Since 1920, farm output per worker in the U.S. has not just doubled or tripled, but quadrupled. The mess is twofold...
Rough water on Saturday morning cut down the competition in the men's slalom. Wind and waves more than doubled the difficulties of the skiers trying to navigate the course at 30, 32, 34, and 36 m.p.h. Three of the favorites, Skip Charles, Bruce Sylvester and Bill Grimditch tied for...
When he was in Czechoslovakia, he said, he got State Department approval to reduce the embassy staff from 80 to 40, yet in six months the bureaucratic resistance of Washington agencies kept him from removing more than two. But the Czech government, harassing the embassy, actually helped by declaring all...
Branch-Plant Economy. One reason Canada is doing well is that its neighbor is too. Much as it rankles, Canadians still have a branch-plant economy that is largely dependent upon the U.S. But Canada is growing even faster than the U.S.-its gross national product jumped 8% last year...