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...hopes to triple the volume of Berlin-Soviet trade this year, and Moscow's festival is sure to help. But though Berlin's fashion industry has made the biggest eastward strides, the city's Siemens and Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...
Over the next 35 years, the city will receive $250 million from the oil companies and 10,000 property owners will share an additional $136 million. The biggest beneficiary by far will be the state of California, which will get about $1,250,000,000 out of the deal. For Long Beach, the new riches will help finance many of the improvements in the minds of the city's imaginative leaders, who already have bought the Queen Mary for $3,450,000 for use as a waterfront museum and hotel, and have contracted to build a 3,500-seat...
Such assurances notwithstanding, many of the 7,000 firms that supply Ford with parts and material are sure to be hurt; a few started laying off workers within hours after the strike began. The biggest burden, of course, will fall on the principals themselves. The U.A.W., warned Walter Reuther, "will be tested as it has never been tested before." Proclaimed Henry Ford II, chairman of the shut-down auto company: "The strike will be costly. But the effects of an unsound settlement would be far more pervasive, longer lasting and, in the final analysis, even more costly...
Purists who insist that kilts are worn by men-and what the other sex wears is pleated skirts-may be upset to learn that the world's biggest manufacturer of kilts sells them strictly to females...
After a publisher produces two hits, a good move is to find a third book that mates them. Simon & Schuster boasts one of the year's biggest Jewish novels, The Chosen, as well as a more lighthearted Catholic bestseller, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Their publishing offspring is a Catholic-Jewish novel-specifically the story of a custody fight between the two faiths that becomes a body-snatching contest...