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...meeting also hoisted storm warnings from the poorer nations that depend on exports of raw materials. Despite Common Market progress, most prosperous European nations still cling to the maze of tariffs, quotas, and domestic farm subsidies that proliferated in lean postwar years to discourage imports, now hurt their own consumers as well as African, Asian and Latin American producers. Ranging from a West German levy that boosts the price of coffee to 35? a cup in restaurants, to the Common Market's exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical...
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...questions about life are asked over and over again. How long can organisms cling to the spark of life? Does life exist elsewhere than on earth? Last week scientists attempted to answer both questions-and thereby raised a scholarly scientific controversy...
...that Bruce uses a special silicone lubricant on his records which he figures cuts record wear by about 75%. This gunk has the happy advantage of not gumming up the needle (as most record cleaners do). Although the records are somewhat sticky to handle and dust might tend to cling to the slightly tack surfaces if the discs were allowed to lie around, Bruce finds this method the best available for insuring practically infinite record life...
...fallout, because its several near-polar routes take its planes through fresh radioactive clouds from the Russian tests. According to the Public Health Service, which checks Pan Am's planes, they are already ten times as radioactive as before the Russian tests started. The radioactive material does not cling to smooth, clean surfaces. It nestles in places where the air stream makes abrupt turns. Oily spots, which are sometimes unavoidable, catch the hot particles, which also lodge inside jet engines...