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...great ships at sea? Last July, Commander Connelly D. Stevenson, 41, permitted a comely go-go dancer to do her uninhibited stuff-topless-aboard his Finback, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, which was docked at Port Canaveral, Fla. Some of the crew figured that the harmless little maneuver would spur morale, and Stevenson went along with the invitation. Indeed, after the ten-minute performance, enthusiastic crew members shouted, hooted and stamped their approval; and the dancer, Cat Futch, 23, got a thank-you buss from Stevenson...
Passionate Familiarity. So much for the public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
...Measures like the creation of an international investment trust to spur more private investment in developing countries. The trust would, for instance, establish a $200 million reserve to guarantee investors against loss...
...increased stimulus probably are aimed more at Japan and West Germany than at the U.S. They are more dependent than the U.S. on earnings from foreign sales, and are traditionally inclined to sit back in times of recession and wait for their export markets to bounce back and spur their own recoveries. Yet policymakers in each of the Big Three countries protest that overstimulation will send prices skyrocketing again. They argue that it was an erosion of buying power caused by inflation that brought on the recession in the first place. But others remain unpersuaded. Although French President Giscard...
...take as many trains as possible from London to Tokyo-including a few spur lines of the moment-and then back again? This notion would no doubt horrify the hapless U.S. rail commuter and send him reeling back to the bar car. Yet in late 1973 Novelist Paul Theroux 35, spent four months chugging over just such an odyssey. Surprisingly, he not only survived but entertainingly tells the tale...