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...American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...
...tool trade since the 1930s. "It's always feast or famine in this business," says Carl L. Sadler, president of Cincinnati's Sundstrand Corp. Orders for machine tools plunged from a high of $1.7 billion two years ago to some $900 million last year, and they will dip to about $750 million in 1971. Because the industry makes the machines that make other machines, it is carefully watched as a sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy. Orders for machine tools rise sharply only when major industrial customers-mostly the auto, aircraft and other metalworking companies-want to expand...
...meeting took place in a room in an artificial limestone cave carpeted with grass and cactus plants. There, following a dip in the Black Sea, Brezhnev and Brandt discussed proposed trade and cultural agreements. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will probably meet Russia's top officials in a more mundane Kremlin setting when she arrives in Moscow this week for a two-day visit...
Farm income this year will probably not rise above the 1970 level and could come in slightly below it. Any dip in prices for livestock, which accounts for about 60% of farm earnings, has a widespread effect. Thus the payments farmers receive for the rich autumn bounty will be partially offset by relatively meager prices for hogs, poultry and eggs in the first half of the year. To nudge farmers into growing more corn as a hedge against blight, the Department of Agriculture discontinued some support payments for unused acreage. All together, the move will snip Government payments to farmers...
...motorcycle. He has now decided to settle down, and to help in the search for a permanent spot, he has outfitted a van in which he parks his cycle. "My van," he explains, "is like a command module that I use to orbit the big cities. Then I dip in and out of the city, inspecting each possible site, using my bike like...