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...Engineers have much the same problem as Wesleyan--no height. Dave Jansson stands 6'5" and has a 27 point average. He'll be joined in the forecourt by 6'4" Alec Bash and a 6'2" import from the West Coast. In the backcourt are two 5'9" guards, Bruce Wheeler (averaging 14.4) and Steve Chamberlain...
...hundred-seventy-six years separate the Mozart from Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, completed last July. In import, however, the two are not so very far apart. Written in a thoroughly modern idiom, Piston's piece nevertheless has all the brevity, forward drive and essential lyricism of a Mozart horn concerto. Soloist John C. Adams combined a capacity for pyrotechnics with a sensuous pianissimo that must be the envy of all clarinetists...
...does not know whether to be more startled by the arrogance of those who have sought [protection by means of import quotas] or by their intellectual flexibility. Steel and textile men, for example, have preached the virtues of competitive enterprise for many years. Yet we have found them seeking special privilege in Washington this year because of something they call foreign competition. They have gone to the wrong place to attack the wrong enemy: In this situation, their own relative efficiency is decreasing, and they are in fields where outsiders can compete. It is certainly reasonable for a foundation executive...
Apart from causing interest costs to rise, the mini-pound should benefit U.S. consumers. However, the price of British goods shipped abroad will fall not by the full 14.3% devaluation but from zero to about 10%, depending chiefly on how much of the final tab represents transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some...
Denmark devalued less than Britain: 7.9%. It was a half measure intended to help Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...