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...landslide winner, with 59% of the vote, was the centrist New National Party, led by Herbert Blaize, 66, a cautiously conservative former head of government whose political career on the island stretches back for decades. The N.N.P. won 14 of the 15 seats in Grenada's new House of Representatives. A day later, Blaize, who sported a new gray fedora on the way to the ceremony, was sworn in as Prime Minister at York House, Grenada's yellow brick, Georgian-style government building. He then thanked voters for "showing in such a massive way that they are willing...
...between the oil company and the paper. In a story published in April 1983 the Journal claimed that the son of William Tavoulareas, then president of Mobil, had sold ships to the company, thus raising questions about the ethics of such family deals. In strong letters to Journal editors, Herbert Schmertz, Mobil's vice president for public affairs, accused the paper of stealing company documents and conducting a "vendetta against Mobil...
This year as many as 50,000 automobiles will be brought into the U.S. privately, a twelvefold increase in three years. Herbert Singer, a Munich car dealer, claims that half his sales are exported to the U.S. Says he: "I could sell five cars a day to Americans if I had the right color." The savings can be big, even after the $8,000 or so is paid to ship a car from West Germany and adapt it to U.S. safety and emission standards. Example: a Mercedes 500 SEL, when bought from an authorized dealer in the U.S., is about...
...explain modern life by generalizing from Freud's theories of personality to the condition of society as a whole. He argues that contemporary culture fosters narcissistic personalities. The discrepancy comes when Lasch, as a faithful son of Sigmund, attacks writers who do just what he is doing Criticizing Herbert Marcuse, a noted re-interpreter of psychoanalytic thought, Lasch claims that...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...