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...payoff may yet elude him. Despite his strong showing in the primary, he faces an uphill fight to try to grab one of the nine seats on the council. There will be 18 names on the ballot in November. Six of them will be incumbents, and all of these finished in the sop nine in the primary: men like Chris Iannella, Frederick Langone, Dapper O'Neill, who have been running for office for years. It seems unlikely that any of them will stumble before November: no one in Boston is very happy with the City Council...
...unlikely to go along. Said a Peruvian Foreign Ministry official of the U.S. proposal: "What they really want is to split the 200-mile area: twelve miles for us and 188 miles for them! Should we be weak and stupid enough to give in, there would follow an ocean grab by the big powers...
...speculate that his struggle with the wilderness had made him hostile and unable to speak to humans at all, even his would-be rescuers. One search official instructed rescue teams: "This boy has become an animal. He doesn't think like any of us. If you see him, grab hold of him. And it might take two or three, because he'll fight...
...magazine can be considered the personal property of a single man, the Saturday Review is Norman Cousins' baby. It reflects his own grab-bag curiosity: a mix of books, music, travel, science, education and communications. Cousins became the Review's editor 31 years ago, and later its owner. Ten years ago he sold it to the McCall Corp. but kept total editorial control. Recently, however, Editor Cousins, 56, found himself caught in a game of conglomerate Ping Pong, agonizing over where the Review (circ. 650,000) would wind up and whether he could continue...
...Commerce Department predicted that the nation's merchandise trade surplus will fall from $2.7 billion last year to about $500 million this year, the lowest since 1937. Reason: imports are rising much faster than exports. > Partly because the demands of U.S. labor are allowing foreign manufacturers to grab more and more American markets, domestic manufacturers operated their plants at only 73.1% of capacity during the first quarter, an inefficient level that was the lowest since the late 1950s. It is likely that the nation's factories also ran at a slow pace in the second quarter. One indicator...