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...Germans to create a crisis that would have jeopardized Russian hopes of holding talks about arms controls with the new U.S. Ad ministration. As part of his campaign against any political ties between West Germany and West Berlin, East Germany's Stalinist Boss Walter Ulbricht had wanted to clamp on a full-scale land blockade and to harass Allied air liners that carried the West German electors into the isolated city...
...points, to 120, in one day last week on news of a tentative merger agreement with Xerox. This sort of thing perturbs some economists, who fear that the speculative fever could end in scandal or stock bust. As far as Congress is concerned, that only provides another reason to clamp down on conglomerates and their fancy financing...
...newspapers and press-agency offices. The respected daily O Estado de Sao Paulo was ordered to kill its morning edition because a critical editorial warned Costa e Silva: "You can't run a country of 80 million people like an army division." So rapid and efficient was the clamp down on the press and radio that few citizens became aware of the crisis. Under the bright sun, workers left for their weekends and fishermen placidly cast their lines from the banks of Guanabara...
Freezing Frames. The effect of Goldmark's system is to free individual TV receivers from the confinement of commercial broadcasting. Under its agreement with CBS, Motorola will produce briefcase-sized player units with wires that clamp onto the antenna terminals of existing TV sets. The viewer can then choose a film cartridge, drop it into the player, and dial an unused channel. The film, which automatically threads and rewinds itself, can carry nearly an hour of black-and-white viewing and can be stopped at any time for either individual "freezes" or to flip the frames through...
With surprising unanimity, economists and bankers in and out of Britain agree that Wilson waited too long to clamp down on domestic consumption. Forewarned that curbs were coming and fearful of higher prices, Britons went on a spending spree. Consumers not only bought up imports but helped to keep British industry from taking much advantage of its opportunities to sell abroad. "We definitely miscalculated by delaying as long as we did," admits Wilfred Brown, the Board of Trade's minister of state for exports. Even after Wilson belatedly imposed austerity measures-heavy new taxes, tight wage controls...