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...1960s that the best way to fight the competitive challenge of U.S.-owned multinational firms was to create giant European companies capable of competing on a world scale. In Britain, France, Italy and to a lesser degree West Germany, governments encouraged such mergers, sometimes acting as a marriage broker. Today the European merger movement is running into deep trouble...
...Georgia's Fifth District (Atlanta), Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young, 40, a black, edged out Republican Rodney M. Cook, 48, a state legislator and insurance broker. Once noted for his mediating abilities as the executive director of Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Young had to tightrope-walk the busing issue throughout his campaign. While Cook said that he would support a constitutional amendment against busing, Young suggested that busing could be avoided by a careful redrawing of some zoning lines. With that kind of moderate stance, he grabbed enough of Atlanta's white vote...
...scenes evoked grisly memories of the Manson killings. In August, Retired Insurance Broker Paul Corbett, his wife and sister-in-law were found dead, each shot in the back of the head with a .25-cal. gun, in the pantry of Corbett's $100,000 home in the fashionable Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills. A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .30-cal. weapon. A month later Machine Designer Stephen Hawtree, his wife and teen-age son were executed in a similar fashion in the basement...
...does not always sponsor good black films. Black professionals apparently hungry to make a buck financed a large share of Super Fly. As Griffin explains: "This exploitation does not necessarily stem from the white community. It is impossible now for whitey to exploit blacky unless he has a black broker, and we've got plenty of people out here who are willing to sell out blackness. All they're doing is asking a higher price...
...expected to approve the opening of the world's first market in gold futures. (They also plan to rename their organization the Winnipeg Commodities Exchange.) The buyers-both speculators and the big industrial users-would be people who expect the price of gold to rise. Working through a broker, they would put up 10% of the purchase price and get a contract for delivery at a future date up to 18 months away. Sellers would be people who expect the price to fall...