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...nation, France has seemed to be dying all through the 20th century. It was bled white of its young men in World War I, humiliatingly beaten and overrun by the Nazis in World War II, and spent the postwar years futilely trying to put down a succession of colonial revolts, while at home governments fell and Premiers came and went amid the clamor of scuffling Deputies in the National Assembly. Only fading memories remained of the ancient days when the lily banners of the French kings triumphed from one end of Europe to the other, or when the Revolutionary Tricolor...
...EAST GERMANY. Bled by massive inefficiency, defections of specialists to the West and a rigid regime that compounds its own mistakes, East Germany now depends on West Germany for much of its manufactured goods. Trade between the two last year reached $500 million. Less known is the fact that, although still small in volume, U.S. exports to East Germany have risen dramatically in the last year, largely through U.S. sales of wheat, tobacco, and other farm goods...
...lived to 56, but another died at four; Alice's younger carrier daughter Alexandra married Czar Nicholas II, was murdered with him and their hemophilic son, the Czarevitch Alexis. Beatrice's daughter Victoria Eugenie married Alfonso XIII of Spain, had two affected sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo, who bled to death after accidents...
Since the first auto was produced in 1893, some 1,850 U.S. auto firms have gone out of business, two of them (Packard and Kaiser) since World War II. Studebaker's departure from fifth place leaves the U.S. with only four major auto producers. "We were being bled to death," said Studebaker Chairman Randolph Guthrie, a partner in the Wall Street law firm that Richard Nixon recently joined. Guthrie has his own explanation for why Studebaker flopped in one of history's best auto years. "The reason," he says, "is that everyone thought that Studebaker was going...
...letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...