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...across the board. Such a reduction would help swing the talks toward ways of lowering trade barriers rather than raising new ones. But Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet warns that a steel OMA might stop progress in the talks, and a U.S. Treasury official adds, "If we erect another trade barrier, the whole future of free trade as we know it is in jeopardy." If the Geneva talks fail, it is easy to foresee a truly vicious circle: protectionist moves further restrict the growth of global trade, keeping expansion of the world economy slow and unemployment in industrial nations high...
...Author F.F. Molochkov does not slight the basics. "Don't forget that by your appearance and your manners you attract the attention of those around you," he advises. Among other things, he instructs his readers on how to move: "Watch your stride. Don't waddle. Walk firmly, erect and with dignity." Style at the dinner table is also important. "Don't crumble your bread into the soup." Molochkov says. "Don't spit bones and so forth onto the plate." Nor should well-mannered diplomats slurp from the tip of their soup spoons, or ask for second...
...went pubic in 1967," says Guccione proudly -while Playboy was still holding back. He also started a skin magazine for women, Viva. With the air of a man who might have invented first penicillin and then Aureomycin, he lists his publishing firsts: "Lesbians, threes, full-frontal male nudity, erect penis...
Even when he is in mufti, his erect military bearing is obvious. And as Admiral Stansfield Turner passes military men in the CIA's spacious corridors, they often salute automatically. When he descends from his seventh-floor office in a private, key-operated elevator and steps into his sedan, the chauffeur calls him "Admiral" rather than "Director." Turner likes it that way. After 34 years in the Navy, he is all salt...
...Harvard will erect a tent with capacity for 400 people outside Palmer-Dixon, which holds 1200. Last year 2650 people attended the clambake, and, because there seemed to be a "psychological barrier" to going outside and eating, many had to wait while the first arrivals ate their lobster or roast beef dinners, Koivumaki said...