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...find itself on the outside looking in. Since nearly a third of all American exports now go to Europe, exclusion or crippling barriers would mean not only the loss of important markets, but a crushing blow to U.S. hopes of cutting the balance-of-payments deficit by promoting wider trade...
...West Germany. This chain, manned largely by Germans who learned their trade running G.I. commissaries for the U.S. occupation forces, now grosses some $60 million a year. Unlike supermarketeers elsewhere, Weston does not try to undersell the German corner grocers. Instead, he outsells them by offering a far wider variety of goods, including such recently adopted Teutonic favorites as Wicks Vaporub and Reis Knusperle-which are Rice Krispies that do not go snap, crackle, pop but "knisper, knasper, knusper...
Refusing to speculate on Radcliffe's "big shift," Glimp said that Harvard's public-private ratio "is staying pretty constant because both sectors have improved equally." It is well known that the College is getting a wider and higher quality applicant group from the high schools, he said. What is less well recognized is that the private schools "have undergone a remarkable transformation in the last few years. The same fellows who came here from Andover and Exeter five years ago just aren't even applying now," he said...
...military aimed their decrees against exiled Dictator Juan D. Perón, whose still faithful followers won a surprising 35% of the vote and 45 congressional seats in elections last March. But the action may have a wider effect. Argentines, and their free but prudent press, have until now shown themselves curiously lethargic to their country's fate. Last week political parties on all sides cried outrage and defiance. "The recess decree is a juridical absurdity," snapped Olegario Becerra, the acting presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies. "Tomorrow, insofar as it is in my power," he promised...
...hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal for 12-meter yachts. Like Gretel she has a divided cockpit, but the helmsman stands far aft, instead of forward, to be out of the work area. For extra speed she has a long, flat run, a stubby, reverse transom, and at 57,500 lbs., she is fully...