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...Patrick's Day 40 years ago, Michael Joseph Quill, late of County Kerry and the Irish Republican Army, landed at Ellis Island. He had flipped a coin, it was said, to decide between New York and Melbourne, and New York won-in a manner of speaking...
...comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always to be getting in the way of national heroes." All memorable enough-and merchandisable enough. But even Stevenson didn't coin enough to fill a book...
...Viet Nam, war costs include funds for a new Marine division, a second nuclear aircraft carrier, stepped-up production of giant C-141 jet transports, and development of the even-bigger C-5A, plus two new types of aircraft-the movable-wing FB-111 bomber and the lightweight COIN (for counterinsurgency) ground-support plane...
Wants Helped. On the other side of the coin, some recently ailing West European economies are recuperating. France's growth rate, which last year was cut in half (to 2.5%) as a result of a credit clampdown that effectively stemmed inflation, is expected to snap back to 4.5% this year, as restrictions are eased. Investors were so cheered by the recent removal of Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, architect of deflation, that they kicked the stock market's blue chips up 10% to 15% just after the change. "But," warns the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...hear the neglected music of P.D.Q. Bach, the least-known offspring of Johann Sebastian. The opening Concerto for Horn and Hardart got off to a lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells. For a finale, he punctured six balloons with an ice pick and a rifle...