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...trooped into Manhattan's Pier 86 one day last week to snare the 1,558 passengers of the liner United States, just in from Europe. Reason: the allowance for duty-free purchases abroad had been changed from $500 to $100-a step aimed at stemming the U.S. gold drain. Total purchases over the $100 limit are now subject to taxes...
...today is the sixth largest industrial manufacturer in the world (after the U.S., Russia, West Germany, Great Britain, France). Yet the stern program announced three years ago to match West German per capita consumption by 1961 failed miserably, is no longer even mentioned. Largely at fault is the huge drain on the economy resulting from shipments of heavy industrial equipment to the rest of the Soviet bloc; East Germany is the machine shop for Russia (it produces one-half of the Soviet Union's total ma chine imports) and half a dozen other satellite nations. So great...
...five. Among other things, it declared that THE NAME OF "MAD MAN" WITH WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO GAG ALL INNOVATORS SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS A TITLE OF HONOR. The five themselves sounded a bit mad with anti-tradition slogans of "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!" But their underlying purpose could not have been more serious. "We choose to concentrate our attention on things in motion,'' said Severini. "The era of the great mechanized individuals has begun," said Boccioni. "All the rest is paleontology...
...hear stereophonically." But for the unwary, Frey's effects are often more unsettling than satisfying. When played at top volume, the fizz of a freshly opened soda bottle on a Frey album explodes into the fury of a hurricane-whipped ocean; the gurgle of water washing down a drain becomes the belch of some prehistoric monster...
Just to make sure the studying takes, Rickover requires requalification tests aboard ship. A man has to study to keep his rating, study harder to get ahead. This produces an odd personnel problem: a steady drain on savvy chief petty officers as they get commissions. Compared with the Navy as a whole, 30 times more Rickover sailors become officers. "You lose 20% of your people," growled one sub commander last week as he stared at a couple of CPOs hunched over books as well as black coffee. That fails to daunt "the admiral," as he is called without further identification...