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Doubtless more than one high school French class has visited Fromage Import. In addition to having the kind of quaint setting every French teacher depicts as "typically" French, the restaurant's specialties--quiches and omelettes--are among those elementary French foods attempted by every French class at one time or another. Prices at Fromage Import are very reasonable--for under $2 you can get one of the specialties, a salad and a beverage ranging from mineral water to apple beer. A serving of mushroom, bacon, feta, chive, ham, spinach, mussel or ratatouille quiche is 95 cents. Even without your French...
...buys Soviet vodka, platinum, diamonds and chrome ore and sells oil-and gas-drilling equipment, machinery and electronic gear, including computers. The Russians have been eager for loans and technological know-how, and so far they have got some of both. Only in May Nixon intervened with the Export-Import Bank to approve a $180 million loan for eight Soviet ammonia fertilizer plants and the attendant gear to move the fertilizer to distribution centers. Partially because of the Jackson amendment, however, Nixon has not been able to deliver on his other promises for loans and tariff concessions. "My firmness...
Self-Deception. The committee's report suggests that Summerlin's actions "involved at least some measure of self-deception, or some other aberration, which hindered him from adequately gauging the import and eventual results of his conduct." Dr. Lewis Thomas, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, concurs. After meeting with Summerlin, his wife and a psychiatrist, Thomas agreed that the researcher was suffering from a "serious emotional disturbance...
...Occidental Petroleum and El Paso Natural Gas, be brought into the gas exploration venture because of their expertise in that activity, and that the U.S. put up an equal amount of money for the venture. The Soviets are amenable, but Congress lately has been opposed to granting the Export-Import Bank credits necessary for U.S. participation. Some legislators object to Soviet treatment of dissident intellectuals and Jews; others feel that the money would be better spent inside the U.S. In addition, the idea of lending billions of dollars to the Soviets at low interest when American businessmen must...
...Harvey went to Europe to personally import films for the Brattle. In Sweden he screened an enormous number of films made between 1935 and 1955, and brought back Smiles of a Summer Night, the first Bergman film shown in the United States and an international favorite that year...