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...conferences"-international shipping agreements -that cover nearly all commodities on the world's trade routes. A conference member, for example, must charge $52.75 per ton for carrying kraft wrapping paper from the U.S.'s West Coast to the Far East. The Soviet price: $38. Russian ships will haul coffee or sisal from Kenya to Europe for half of the conference rate, machine tools from West Germany to Canada at a 45% reduction, or indeed any product at whatever discount will win the business...
Pressing their advantage, the Soviets have embarked on a new shipbuilding spree. Nationalistic logic would dictate that the new ships be more tankers to handle the U.S.S.R.'s swelling exports of oil and bulk carriers to haul imported grain and exported coal. But the Russians instead have ordered from their own and other Communist countries' shipyards 100 new dry-cargo vessels and 33 fast containerships-vessels clearly destined for general world trade...
...guises: bat, wolf and now, Truman Capote. Or so it would seem from the vibes caused by his short story in Esquire last November. Titled La Côte Basque, 1965 and taken from his unpublished novel Answered Prayers, the piece focused on a posh Manhattan restaurant and its haul monde clientele. For his cast, Capote chose some old acquaintances, including Jacqueline Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor pane...
...action was hailed by civil rights groups as a move that strengthens Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment because of race, religion or sex. Specifically, the ruling came in response to a petition on behalf of black applicants for long-haul truck-driver jobs with Bowman Transportation Inc. in Atlanta, which until 1970 openly followed a policy of hiring whites only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never obtain his rightful...
...coffee shop to tell reporters: "We're all delighted. We've challenged an incumbent who has thrown the whole load at us-all the big artillery there is-[and yet] we are still getting close to half the vote. We're in for the long haul, all the way to Kansas City...