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...most admired show place, was their work, but it and the other ruins of Angkor are so dramatic and overwhelming that the individual pieces of sculpture and bas-relief tend to get swallowed up. It is the virtue of the Asia House show that the individual pieces can assert themselves and be evaluated on their...
Bolstered by the knowledge that their customers of record 1959 will soon be back in the market for new cars,* foreign car importers confidently assert that their slide has ended, predict that their 1962 sales will bounce back up to 400,000. But many of the 30-odd foreign makes that flourished in the U.S. in 1959 have been all but driven from the field. Only about a dozen foreign manufacturers, with lean, battle-hardened sales organizations, are expected to make money next year in the U.S. market...
...Ball was aware that such a policy will meet with strong opposition. "There is hardly a day," said he, "when a representative of industry does not assert emphatically to us in Washington that his industry needs a system of rigid quotas to keep out foreign imports or it will perish." Ball argued that European nations also resisted such changes when the Common Market was first proposed. Yet once they made the "hard choices"-mergers, increased investment, modernization-"many found to their great relief that the dreaded competition from other European producers was not so formidable after all. The adjustments have...
...insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only for the nuclear might to back it up. Most dubious part of his record: he is a onetime Nazi party member who explains that he joined in 1933 only as a way to get ahead...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci made by far the most noise yesterday at a City Council meeting where several Councilors tried to assert a monopoly ownership of the voice of the people Cambridge. It was the second to last meeting before the election next Tuesday...