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...frightened two-year-old who asked about the loud noises he was hearing. "Bombs, dear," said Nanny. "Elbows off the table." The last thing a very drunk nanny-generation Englishman does before passing out, the author reports, "is to stagger round his room, frequently falling over, trying to fold up his clothes, put shoe trees in his shoes and finally, now probably being sick but despite this, cleaning his teeth...
...John Connally, the disenchanted counselor, was there, back in the fold ("He nodded wisely a couple of times," reported one participant), and so was the disheartened George Shultz, ready to trudge on. The ripples from such meetings can in the long run change the Government and the nation. But is it too little and too late? Richard Nixon's Government is for now an ocean of despair...
...MESBIC (for Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company) program since its inception in 1969. An individual or company can form a MESBIC by putting up at least $150,000 in private capital; after investing most of this sum in nonwhite companies, the MESBIC can increase its original capital 15-fold through a combination of Government and private funding. There are now 62 MESBlCs, and they have the potential for investing millions. But Government regulations restrict the sum that a MESBIC can put into any one company...
...attempts after the January truce. Another believes that the Communists are now concentrating on building up their infrastructure in areas they already hold. He adds that Saigon "has achieved an equilibrium it can live with. The main arteries are open, the bulk of the population is within the government fold." But it is still too early to tell whether Cease-Fire II will really take permanent hold...
...shut down their pumps permanently. At the same time, major oil companies are cutting back their retail operations in areas where they are weak. In recent weeks, Exxon began phasing out at least 150-and possibly as many as 400-of its Midwestern stations. Atlantic Richfield plans to fold some 2,400 of its outlets in the Upper Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions...