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...Barnstaple, England. For 800 years, the monarchs of Lundy (the island was first given to a nobleman by King Stephen in the 12th century; more recently, whoever owned the land held the title) battled mainland policies, minted the puffin, worth 1.9?, which was outlawed in 1931 when it ran afoul of British currency laws. Harman, whose father bought the island in 1925 for $80,000, rebuffed the mother country's efforts to incorporate the taxfree, school-less, policemanless haven. Harman's son, John, succeeds to the "throne...
...result in steel price increases, which will make it even more difficult for U.S. steelmakers to compete against foreign companies. The union contends that the best way to combat the problem is by imposing quotas on steel imports, but that solution, obviously favored by the companies as well, runs afoul of the Administration's efforts to lower trade barriers...
...plan ran afoul of Surveyor 7's first glitch. After firing a small explosive charge to free the box, the scientists began lowering it on a nylon cord. Halfway down, the box stuck. Using the spacecraft's TV camera to hunt for the source of the trouble and working with duplicate models, JPL scientists and engineers from JPL and Hughes Aircraft, designer of the moon robot, struggled to set it free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady...
Responding to businessmen's complaints that some of the new rules seemed unduly onerous, OFDI aides sent out word that U.S. corporations will not run afoul of the investment curbs by guaranteeing the debts of their foreign subsidiaries. Only by such underwriting can many a subsidiary borrow abroad-as the Administration still allows-on reasonable terms. Some moviemakers, pointing out that 54% of industry revenues last year came from abroad, hoped for exemption from capital controls to enable them to continue filming overseas. And the petroleum industry demanded a ruling that money spent on oil-well drilling...
...been in stir for years. Now it has turned up again, paroled as Cool Hand Luke, a close study of conditions in a Southern prison. Like its most celebrated predecessor, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Luke is the story of a simple man who falls afoul of the law and mechanically becomes destroyed by a so-called house of correction...