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...primary cause of the dropoff is political and psychological. In January, after his advisers reported increasing resistance from potential U.S. investors, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin showed up at a Manhattan hotel to give a pep talk on the Commonwealth's economic possibilities to 500 U.S. businessmen. When he finished, the first question was: "What about Castro?" Fearful that Castroism has high export value, many U.S. businessmen wonder if Cuba's nationalization of U.S. investment (totaling $1.5 billion) may be an augury of things to come across the hemisphere...
...good. Yet ironically, competition is fiercer than ever. Because youngsters really want to attend the college they apply to, Ivy League campuses can no longer overbook freshmen classes, and may reject an even higher proportion of serious applicants. Colleges are not sure whether to fear or cheer the dropoff...
Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
Berman said that the lawyer must become an expert in every field that has a bearing on his case, and noted that in the McKeon case, he had to study hydrography to defend his position that panic caused the death of the six recruits rather than any sudden dropoff or deep place in the boondocks at Parris Island...
...crisis, printers and reporters drove their own cars to the plant, loaded up with papers and carried them to dropoff points around Brooklyn. But there the bundles languished on the sidewalks; union members working for distributors would not handle them. Co-Publishers Albert and Sidney Klass, the brothers who started their paper as a weekly 18 years ago, asked for an injunction against the boycott so they could get on with their plan of boosting the Daily's circulation from 25,000 to an initial borough-wide...