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...them in meadow green, wheatland yellow, marine blue, firebolt orange, spruce green, grapefruit yellow, classic bronze and crimson red. They have power-operated sun roofs, bucket seats, air conditioning. Some even have beds, refrigerator, toilet. These are the new amenities on the lowly old truck, which is propelling Detroit into a truck-making boom...
...trade package negotiated last week included a Common Market agreement to cut tariffs on U.S. oranges and grapefruit, a move that should encourage sale of these goods in Europe. In addition, the European Economic Community agreed to stockpile 1.5 million tons of wheat, thus eliminating part of this year's crop from competition with U.S. wheat on the world market. Looking toward long-range reform, the negotiators agreed to begin talks next year aimed at reducing tariffs and other trade barriers on a wide variety of goods and raw materials. All in all, the terms seemed to provide some...
...theater, on boards once trod by such creations as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, a white-robed, rock-age Jesus Christ now strides barefoot. He arrives onstage most phallically, rising like a glittering crocus out of a chalice that somewhat resembles those silvered bowls in which hotels serve grapefruit. He departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod?...
...answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...
...following Mao's precept to "take small and medium cities first, take big cities later." Defying pressure from Japan's protectionist agricultural bureaucrats, who have burdened him with red tape, Nakauchi imports the cheapest foreign food that he can find: cattle and onions from Australia, oranges and grapefruit from the U.S. He has turned his retail outlets into small department stores, selling not only food but Chinese pajamas, Korean shirts and, if the price is right, even Japanese-made goods. Last winter, when outraged mammasans boycotted Japanese-made color TV sets that were being sold domestically for prices...