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...from foreign lines grows ever more keen, some U.S. airline presidents also feel strongly that it makes little economic sense for U.S. carriers to compete on overseas service. A more sensible approach, the presidents argued in Washington, would be to grant U.S. lines exclusive routes. For service to such im portant gateways as London and Paris, which the second U.S. line might be loath to relinquish, they suggest that the flights -and revenues-should be pooled and the schedules arranged so that the two lines would complement, and not compete with, each other's services...
...EXPORT-IMPORT BANK. Restricted by law to financing the purchase of specific U.S. goods and services by foreign nations, the Ex-Im Bank has broadened its mission to include general lines of credit to Latin American countries for basic development projects. Extent of the speedup: 18 loans for $456.3 million (mostly for U.S.-made road-building machinery and agricultural equipment) since March, v. nine loans worth $280 million in the same six months last year...
...Salvador, an American fiscal expert made the mistake of wearing white shoes to the office. He was practically ostracized, until a friend tipped him off that white shoes are taboo in the country. Thereupon he bought a pair of brown shoes and "noticed the immediate im provement in reception of myself and my technical advice...
...wives of both men have been im measurably helpful: as a constant companion on Dick Nixon's campaigns and world tours, Pat has been well informed, indefatigable and courageous ("She was braver than any man I ever saw," said a military aide after Caracas). Emily Lodge, receiving high-ranking guests with her mellowed husband in her cerise and white drawing room of their Waldorf Towers apartment, is a portrait of manner-born grace and warmth...
...grew up amid the neon glow of pawn shops and poolrooms on Mechanic Avenue, where the purple nights resounded to the clank and clatter of the street cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young Ike-o served an apprenticeship as sneak thief, pimp, and hanger-on of Catfish Gedunsky, a small-time politician, until the army drafted him before the start...