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...import from Britain, this five-part serialization of the Thackeray classic is one of the bright spots in the fall TV season. The story of Becky Sharp, English fiction's most famous social climber, Vanity Fair is a comedy of manners and immorals in Regency England...
...part form. The first, "A Stone of Day 1949-50" is the description of a weekend at Dawes's grandfather's farm. Dawes's parents are nice, intelligent, and liberal, but they're not outstanding. His grandparents are unique. His grandfather believes in "The Elementary Need and the Universal Import of the Competitive Drive in Man." His grandmother makes Dawes listen to every preacher on the radio all Sunday morning. But even they are unimportant compared to the one great influence in Dawes' early life: Abigail Winas...
...been the Soviet Union's outstanding debt (originally about $11 billion) to the U.S. for Lend-Lease aid during World War II. In last week's discussions the Soviets agreed to a still undisclosed formula for repayment. Settlement of this debt would in turn permit the Export-Import Bank to finance the export of U.S. goods to the Soviet Union. It would also enable the Nixon Administration to ask Congress to grant the Russians most-favored nation trade privileges and credits, an important prerequisite for extensive trade. But Congress is reluctant to grant such favors to the Russians...
...Even so, Boeing's salesmen used every method they could think of, including visits to Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before getting the nod. Finally Miller tried the direct approach and spent 21? to mail a letter to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corp. in Peking. Back came an invitation for a Boeing contingent to attend the Canton trade fair in April and then go to Peking...
Ponto spent his early childhood in Ecuador and Chile, where his German father ran an export-import business. After the war he studied at Göttingen, Hamburg, Zurich, Cambridge and the University of Washington, where he did half a year of graduate work in international law. He joined Dresdner Bank in 1950 "out of curiosity about figures," and by 1969 made it to chief executive...