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...cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
...year. The consensus among economists is that the U.S. must overhaul its farm policies by increasing acreage allotments, reducing price supports or doing both. Thinking within the Administration seems to be moving in that direction too, but any proposal to subsidize farmers less generously is certain to start a knockdown political brawl...
Round 1 of what promises to be a long court battle between the Treasury Department and the banking industry ended last week with each side scoring a knockdown. The tussle began more than two months ago, when the totally misnamed Bank Secrecy Act was scheduled to take effect. The law is intended to help the Government check up on such malefactors as tax cheaters and Mafia dons by forcing banks to disclose much information about transactions by customers. All along, leaders of the banking establishment have voiced their loud disapproval. The act, they claim, would lead to a "total invasion...
...done, unions may yet cooperate reluctantly with Phase II. If not, the Nixon Administration, which has often underestimated the rising disgust that many working people feel about the outrageous demands of some union leaders, may have to take off the gloves and appeal for broad public support in a knockdown confrontation between the Administration and big labor...
...partner. What fierce, cannibalistic love scenes we stage in films and even in private lives! Such Who's Afraid of Virginia foolishness! Such ripping and tearing! Such savage, winner-takes-all grappling! The fistfights in Five Easy Pieces seem like friendly interludes of token mayhem compared with the knockdown and drag-out lovemaking. Not the least among the crimes of angry art is that it makes sentimental art (Love Story, etc.) the polar alternative...