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Once known as "banana republics," five small nations of Central America-have a history of bad-neighborliness, with frequent border skirmishes and damaging trade barriers against one another's goods. But they are beginning to learn some important lessons of development through cooperation. Now grouped in a common market barely two years old, the five have lowered the barriers on a list of 1,000 goods ranging from farm products to automobile tires. Internal trade jumped 30% to $43.2 million last year, and new plastics, textile and chemical industries have sprung up to service a market of 11 million...
...festive rights following the official ceremonies became so excessive that the Board of Overseers made frequent but always unsuccessful attempts to curb Commencement behavior, even to the extent of banning "plum cake," which the Overseers observed, was never served in European universities...
They also have style. In the past year one gang has made frequent headlines by knowledgeable thefts of priceless silver from stately homes, whose doughty walls, it seems, scarcely quiver when burglars blast open the pantry safe. One victim, the Marquess of Bristol, learned recently that $56,000 worth of silver pinched from his mansion last February is now in Russia. Another underworld spectacular that fascinated Britons was carried out last year by eight dapper dastards in bowler hats, and dark suits and carrying tightly furled umbrellas, who marched into London airport, grabbed a $175,000 airline payroll, and beat...
...make many decisions not for the short but for the long term. The computer population has grown from 300 to 11,000 in eight years, and is forecasting demand faster and more accurately, making sharp swings in inventory unnecessary. As a result, recessions are becoming briefer, shallower and less frequent, and periods of prosperity are lengthening. In the 85 years before World War II, the average slump lasted 21 months; since then it has shrunk to ten months, while the length of the typical peacetime recovery has increased from 25 months to 32 months. Perhaps the recoveries are more moderate...
...Four Days of Naples evokes sympathy for its Italion protagonists with a minimum of melodrama. It even dares to intersperse this subject with frequent snatches of ironic comedy--a gentleman, for instance, running through the streets in pajamas crying, "Rejoice, solders! We lost the War!" A cast left anonymous in tribute to the real Naples performs superbly, especially, in its use of animated facial gesture. One man being led away for the work crews wrinkles his features into a soulful stare that would have made Chaplin envious. Photography and timing art both managed with artistic sensitiveness...