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...military provides an effective channel of upward mobility for poor people and minorities...
...international prices would rise above those prevailing in the U.S., and the wheat really would move abroad. A few officials are more sympathetic to the idea of calling a world commodity conference to work out international methods of controlling the speculative buying that has helped to rocket prices upward. That seems a good idea, but the Administration is opposed to outright allocation of scarce foods and raw materials between countries, and international panic buying may be unstoppable without that...
...shakier the U.S. economy looks at home, the stronger it suddenly appears overseas-or so it seemed last week. Domestically, the news was all of upward-spiraling inflation and fears of recession. But internationally, the U.S. began to shake off its image of a pitiful, helpless economic giant...
...slogans have been reversed, and European labor-not Japanese-suddenly seems fairly cheap. Manufacturing costs in Japan rose 19% last year and are likely to go up another 30% this year. This wage inflation at home, coupled with the upward revaluation of the yen, makes manufacturing operations in Europe much more profitable than sending Japanese goods halfway round the world. A second reason for direct investment is that if the European trade deficit with Japan grows much larger, the Common Market may simply clamp on quotas or demand so-called voluntary restraints to keep Japanese goods out. Already those restrictions...
...million copies of Penthouse each month (v. Playboy sales of 6.7 million). Playboy maintained a haughty indifference to Penthouse for three years, then replied last October with Oui, which combined a rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood. Its latest circulation guarantee-the fourth upward revision in a year-promises a base of 1,750,000 sales in October...