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...part of the post-World War II drive for freer trade, the U.S. tariff on cast-resin billiard balls was progressively reduced from 50% in 1947 to 20% in 1963. Now the Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard Ball Co. of Albany, N.Y., the only U.S. maker of cast-resin billiard balls, claims that it has been knocked into a side pocket by the imports. The company once dominated the U.S. market, but currently has only one-third of it. So Albany Billiard Ball is campaigning to kick...
Although he could have stayed in Canada, reasonably secure from imprisonment, he chose to return. For Tankersley, return has been a "rebirth. I feel freer now in prison than I did when I was a radical...
...Because people know more or less where they stand in regard to being drafted, they are much freer in their choices," he said. "For instance, someone with a number over 200 will leave if he really wants to because he knows he probably won't be drafted...
...prisoners find themselves between the crushing walls of social ostracism and prison mores. But which of the two can the prisoner bear more easily? Statistics show for certain that most cannot cope with free-world rejection. Ironically, the freer of the two worlds for the convict is prison; it is there that he finds no social barriers like the pretentiousness of the elite. Who can blame former prisoners and parolees for seemingly breaking-down gates to get back...
...doing about flight jackets down there?" asked the skipper of another Navy facility. "You letting them wear them around the base?" Replied Chandler: "Sure. I've got to, since I do it my self." A former colleague of Zumwalt's in Saigon, Chandler is so enthusiastic about the freer atmosphere under The Big Z that he tries to keep a step ahead. He relaxed the rules on hair and beards before any Z-gram mentioned them, wears his own hair in a long wavy pompadour with modest sideburns. Moreover, he is sending his base barbers to hair-styling school...