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Still, the U.S. is making some progress toward long-run balance. The deficit caused by large military spending is down from the recent annual average of $2.6 billion to $1.7 billion-not so much because the U.S. is spending less overseas, but because it has induced West Germany to buy some $600 million worth of its defense equipment in the U.S. In addition, about two-thirds of the U.S. foreign aid grants are now "tied" to a requirement that they be spent on U.S. goods. The direct investments of U.S. business abroad are down from $1.6 billion...
...than two years, and the cut in stock margins was a natural response by the Federal Reserve Board to the decline in stock prices and to the conviction that inflation is no longer a danger. Neither action is likely to provide much immediate stimulus to business activity, but the long-run impact of both moves should be good, and in the short run they should help shore up public confidence...
Matunuck, R.I., Theater by-the-Sea: The Rhode Island edition of Greenwich Village's long-run (900 performances) hit musical, The Fantasticks...
Riesman's letter insisted that "interference, heavy-handed or subtle, from adults who are put in a position of buffers between the Daily and its critics is not a way to encourage free enterprise at Michigan or anywhere else, and the long-run dangers of such interference would seem to outweigh whatever short-run alleviations it might bring...
Among Broadway's long-run tenants, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr; Camelot's Round Table is becoming as durable as King Arthur's-and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady...