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...pressure mounted during the countdown to last week's sale of leases, Anchorage (pop. 113,000) became a haven for industrial spies and counterspies, almost suggestive of Lisbon in the 1940s. The state had put on the auction block 179 tracts of land, totaling 450,858 acres, some of it reaching out under the Arctic Ocean. The rules demanded sealed bids for each tract, to be submitted no later than the morning of the sale...
Costly Commuting. Americans transferred to Europe seem particularly disgruntled by the high price of food, appliances and other creature comforts. To be sure, U.S. prices are now rising at a 6%-a-year rate - considerably faster than prices in almost all European countries. But items that are inexpensive in the U.S. are often costly in Europe. In West Germany, some self-service laundries charge $1 to wash a load of clothing. Cantaloupes often sell for $1.75 apiece; coffee costs $1.74 a pound. Bread costs 60? a loaf in Paris, and cigarettes are 75? a pack in London. A publisher...
...practice of paying lavish allowances began years ago with the oil companies. Then it was a way of inducing men to accept jobs in Africa and the Middle East. Today, the extras apply almost everywhere and sometimes add 50% to a paycheck. International Harvester pays its employees a bonus of as much as 20% to go abroad, and Pan American grants a flat $75 a month. General Motors expects its men to pay 15% of their salaries for rent, but the company defrays seven-eighths of anything above that level. Like many other corporations, G.M. also pays for the children...
French social order ensured disorder. Soldiering and conspiracy were almost the only trades open to the younger sons of an already partly superfluous nobility, and many of them saw fit to follow both. Friction between Huguenot and Catholic never really ceased. Conspiracies against Louis and Richelieu coagulated regularly around Gaston, Louis' vain and frustrated younger brother, and Marie de Medici, their harridan mother...
...leaving France "in the highest degree of glory and of reputation which it has ever had, and all your enemies beaten and humiliated." Then he asked the King to appoint the Italian papal diplomat Mazarin his successor as First Minister. Louis, O'Connell believes, probably never liked Richelieu. Almost no one did. But the King fed the dying Cardinal two egg yolks with his own hand. A few hours after the Cardinal's death, Louis told Mazarin of his appointment...