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...Said Trans World Airlines' Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, head of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce: "We should go slow in preaching the value of free enterprise and of competition abroad while we erect unreasonably barriers to competition with our own markets. We should not insist that friendly nations shut off trade with Iron Curtain countries unless we are will ing to assist them in finding alternate markets...
...good towns people of Hanover decided to impose a residence tax on the Dartmouth men who lived there nine months each year. The Dartmouth men responded by turning out en masse to a town meeting, waving signs of "Taxation Without Representation." Overwhelmingly, they voted that the town erect an eighteen-story city hall, one-foot square...
Under the new plan, Dupuy said, the Army's summer training facilities would be severely taxed. At present, National Guard and Reserve units both share the same camps with ROTC groups. By extending the ROTC's six weeks to 12, the Army would be forced to erect new camps at considerable expense...
That the basic good nature of the goal posts scramble may have saved many a post game riot, that a more suitable solution would have been to erect one steel post and cut the financial loss in half makes little difference now. The days of Barry Wood and Goal Post Wood are gone forever...
Today Marcks lives in a small house on the outskirts of Cologne. White-haired, blue-eyed and erect, he rises each morning at six for a long tramp through the fields. He returns to spend six hours a day, six days a week in his studio. "Nowadays," he says, "my body rebels at longer hours. Physically I'm declining, but artistically I've only recently arrived. Musicians mature first; sculptors last...