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...goes with the latest invasion. Foreign capital and companies have been pouring into Luxembourg ever since the Nazis left. By now almost all the country's major industries are foreign-owned. One-fifth of its residents are aliens. Only a fraction of the $6 billion on deposit in Luxembourg's 41 banks belongs to its citizens, and only one of the banks belongs principally to Luxembourgeois. Yet the country claims the Common Market's highest per capita G.N.P.: $2,900, up 10% from last year. Its residents own proportionately more cars, radios and phones than...
...Claudette Colbert's in It Happened One Night. In at least one part of the country, however, it has not proved a salubrious mix. There have been 73 reported assaults on women hitchhikers in the Washington, D.C., area so far this year. These are probably only a fraction of those that have occurred...
Recently the brisk market in Hitler memorabilia has brought demands for the stamps' release. Two years ago Dr. Franz Sobek, then director of the State Printing Office, was set to sell the stamps to an anonymous collector for $250,000, a fraction more than 10 a stamp. But the Austrian Resistance Fighters objected to the idea that an official Austrian body should profit from "that face," and Dr. Sobek, who was president of the Resistance, quickly agreed. Sobek has since retired, and Austrian stamp dealers as well as lawyers for two important foreign buyers, said to be an American...
Because of cost alone, not everything that can be done with the system will materialize. But it is clear that the system is not being used to more than a small fraction of its capacity-even as it now stands. Transmission and reception points have been in operating order with little use at Larsen Hall, Pierce Hall, and the Computation Labs...
...shadowing rocks. That much was clear and appropriate and irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road down the mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following our road showed a sense of freedom from it. But what have our roads done...