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...improve and spread this supply the Common Market set up new and detailed regulations for grading and packing garlic (the bulbs must be free of dirt, manure or nongarlic smell) and decided to eliminate gradually all tariffs and import price controls on it. The plan, which was considered with all the solemnity suited to the occasion, was passed without a sniff of dissent...
...music wafting out of the examination room and down the halls at New Orleans' Ochsner Medical Center last week sounded like an import of old-time Chicago jazz, played from the heart. It was. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, 58, was in the room, flat on his back, swathed in surgical drapes, holding up a borrowed cornet with his free right hand as he launched, predictably, into St. Louis Blues. Next came a more or less reverent When the Saints Go Marching In, and then a throbbing medley of old familiar blues...
...unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison to the reception of my conducting." Disturbed that "the little baton had such an easy victory over my Stradivari," he has resisted the spell of the magic wand ever since...
...sugar dissolves easily, does not cause water pollution. And, quite beyond these uses, sugar has one major value that no nation dare ignore: from the rum and cachaza of Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess to make, under license, Smirnoff vodka and Gordon...
...efforts to buy tankers through local ship brokers, he purchased one through an intermediary in Hong Kong and two more in London and sailed them Down Under. Before he could put his tankers to work against the oil companies, Miller was forced to appeal the prohibitively high import duties and bonding requirements imposed on them by Australian authorities. His persuasive arguments with top government officials not only won him a reduction but also nearly precipitated a split in the Australian Cabinet, got him widespread publicity and forcibly called attention to the coal industry's dilemma...