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...Sherman Act and subsequent antitrust legislation. Since 1950, the roly-poly Economics Minister has been struggling to persuade West Germany's Bundestag to pass its own anti-cartel law. At times, Erhard's fight-which Germans jestingly called "the Seven Years' War"-seemed hopeless. No European nation had ever adopted a law comparable to the Sherman Act, and none appeared less likely to do so than Germany, fatherland of the classic cartel. (In the mid-1930s, experts estimated that nearly 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in German industry.) Already chafing under the decartelization imposed...
...their own good, such as one fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that is, they were opposing men Nasser wanted elected...
Reaching Hands. The static line was hopeless. Next the aircraft crewmen put out a rope. Flugum grabbed it, and they pulled him three feet toward safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold...
...keep Christian Democratic Premiers in office since 1953. The only bloc from which he might reasonably hope to win support was the right-the Monarchists and neoFascists. The problem was to get their votes without asking. "Dividing us," Zoli told the Monarchists in mild disapproval, "is your hope-your hopeless hope-of a monarchy." With the neo-Fascists the Florentine was harsher. Said he: "I do not seek your votes. I have never sought them. I shall never seek them...
Windbreakers would not cure Harvard tennis, but they would be a step to help a seemingly hopeless disease: there are too few courts; there are no clay courts for everyone's use. The teams, about one one hundred-fiftieth of Harvard, alone can touch a Harvard clay court, and Leverett's one court may give way to house-building; the courts are spaced too awkwardly close to one another; the courts are severely cracked...