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...becoming as serious about le sport as Americans, partly because of what the French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players and horsemen and sailors, dressed in bikinis or tennis togs, sarongs or tie-dyed shirts and denims, sprawl beneath the pines, delaying their showers for an hour...
Meanwhile, the growth of U.S. investments abroad is being retarded by Washington. Last week the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce reported that mandatory controls on direct investment is reducing U.S. competitiveness. The Council concluded that restrictions endanger the expansion of overseas profits, which currently contribute $7 billion to $8 billion a year to U.S. foreign exchange earnings. Ironically, the restrictions may thus damage the nation's balance of payments situation instead of improving it, as they were intended...
...vice president of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, Malcolm Fryer, said that business in the Square had fallen off because people are afraid to come into the area, and called for increased visibility of police patrols in sections frequented by loiterers and panhandlers...
...street community. They have plans for a Halfway House, where kids who can no longer panhandle or sleep in the Square could go and learn a trade, or partake in some other rehabilitative acivity. Cohen believes that such a halfway house, which would be arranged by the Chamber of Commerce and perhaps Harvard University, could be ready in a month...
Angered and disillusioned, Daylie approached the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, a local group chiefly made up of black businessmen, and asked them to take a public position against the gangs. Soon after, he began receiving threats on his life. Since then, he has been using his daily radio show and once-a-week TV program, For Blacks Only, to ask blacks to stand up and be counted. "The silent black majority has become the victim of a violent minority," he says. "Once we are honest enough to admit there is a serious gang problem...