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Reedy Skittering. That is only one of the handicaps Adler has faced over the years. In 1949, after he was accused of being a Communist sympathizer, he went into professional exile from the U.S., making London his concert, TV and recording base as well as his home.* Except for a year-long sojourn in 1959, he has returned only for occasional engagements since...
Hardship Case. Japan has always excused such policies by pleading "special hardships" involved in nursing its war-shattered industrial base back to health. But the pleas sound hollow now that Japan is the world's sixth-ranked industrial nation. And since Japan in 1964 joined the prestigious Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the 23-member OECD "club" has made it clear that the Japanese should begin reciprocating in the international exchange of capital...
...solution lies outside the educational sphere: reforms in taxation (moving away from a property to an income base) and in voter control over other public works promise better ultimate solutions than further centralization at state or federal level...
...Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
Nonseasonal Pattern. Heineman's aim, like that of other progressive railroaders, is to diversify away from an essentially cyclical and undependable base. "We want to offset the weaknesses of the railroad," he says, "with the strength of other companies. In many respects, they're close to the consumer, while the railroad is not. And they operate on a nonseasonal pattern." Last winter, for instance, the normally profitable C. & N.W. suffered so much from wind and weather that it reported a $ 1,400,000 first-quarter loss on rail operations. But as the result of an earlier acquisition...