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After the Massachusetts game, Harvard hits the road for four games. Harrison said he would like to win three of the four games, expecting stiff competition from North Carolina and St. Johns...
...economic concentration in American business, and small businessmen facing cutthroat competition from large corporations saw Kefauver as a savior. He exposed industry's concept of "administered prices" which ignored price competition in favor of increased profit. Kefauver also led the fight to reform the drug industry and drafted stiff legislation just before the tragic dimensions of the thalidomide disaster became known...
...Last year the U.S. took 30.7% of Japan's exports, while the Common Market countries took only 6.7%. Japan sold fewer than 35,000 cars in the Common Market Six last year, only 400 in West Germany. In electronics and textiles, too, the Japanese meet stiff resistance. According to the Six, Japan's problems in Europe are no proof of protectionism. Rather, they are a result of the distance between Japan and Europe, and of European manufacturers' producing efficiently the goods that local consumers want, delivering them faster than the Japanese can, and providing better service...
Assurance is the basis of Eastwood's appeal, as he himself realizes. "A guy sits in the audience," he explains. "He's 25 and scared stiff about what he's going to do with his life. He wants to be that self-sufficient thing he sees up there on the screen in my pictures. A superhuman character who has all the answers, is doubly cool, exists on his own without society or the help of society's police forces." Adds Actress Susan Clark, who worked with Eastwood in Coogan's Bluff: "Part...
...youth of black music. It was an awkward, embarrassed rendezvous--a blind date, really. In discussing a blues festival, Guralnick writes, "(There were) many of the same problems which have plagued every blues 'concert' I have attended since I first saw Lightnin' Hopkins at Harvard twelve years ago: a stiff, unnatural atmosphere, an unbridgeable gulf between performer and audience, and a tendency to treat the blues as a kind of museum piece, to be pored over by scholars, to be admired perhaps but to be stifled at the same time by the press of formal attention...