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...small distinction [Sept. 17]. The description of a Big Mac as something "whose interstices are occupied by alternating dollops of onions, pickle chips," etc., represents rare artistry. One is reminded of the joke about the beef shortage getting so bad that McDonald's is down to its last pound of meat, so that, alas, it can serve only 1,000,000 more hamburgers! Founder Kroc's observation that "when you are in this business you are in show business" is right on target...
...factors have taken the urgency out of the drive to create a new monetary system. First, the world has stumbled into a de facto system of "floating" exchange rates in which the dollar price of the German mark, French franc, Japanese yen and British pound is set by supply and demand-and it has proved stable enough. Second, as a result of two formal dollar devaluations, a further downward float, and ravenous worldwide demand for the farm products that the U.S. grows, America is no longer spilling out dollars abroad at an alarming rate...
...Ezra Pound changed English poetry by badgering it to speak in sharp images, in direct familiar tones. T.S. Eliot challenged it by showing that verse might use myth and nightmare to say something complex about 20th century society. Auden was a brilliant colonizer of lands they discovered; less remote but also less magical than Eliot; wiser and clearer-sighted than Pound; younger and metrically more inventive, with more humor too. He was first heard in the 1930s, sharpening his satiric clauses on the foibles of pre-Munich England...
...cent of the copper that is traded in the world, more than 3,000,000 tons per year. But copper prices are set in the London metal markets. Chile, three years ago for instance, got an average price for copper yearly of more than 62 cents per pound, and each cent that the price goes up or down means 18 million dollars more or less in income for our country...
Restic indicated that he would go with experience whenever possible in his starting lineup. But in the offensive line, manpower shortages have forced him to start two sophomores: Carl Culig at center, and 6 ft.-5 in. 265-pound Dan Jiggetts at tackle...