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...prevent wild swings in the prices, the six major producing nations are joined with 14 consuming countries in the International Tin Council. The I.T.C. was able to moderate the Russian dumping by enforcing strict output quotas on its members and by putting pressure on Moscow, which is reluctant to insult the politically sensitive producing nations. But the I.T.C. is not a very toothy dragon because the U.S., which accounts for 23% of the world's annual tin consumption of 215,000 tons, refuses to join on the grounds that the I.T.C. smacks too much of an international cartel. Last...
...musical wife were musical background and talent as a hostess. Biggest faults: taking stands on too many issues and bragging about husbands. Warned one conductor's wife, who found herself smiling icily at an antagonistic newspaper critic all through a cocktail party: "You have to be impervious to insult...
...These charges insult the integrity and decency of the delegates," Kennedy asserted, asking the Attorney General to "try cases in the courts, not in the newspapers...
...individual"--without wincing from the irony. People at McCormack headquarters describe a poll in which half the women at a supermarket who supported Kennedy in the race gave his first name as Jack. McCormack's staff seems to regard Kennedy's presence in the race more as an insult than a challenge. They point out that he has just reached the qualifying age and his experience is limited to a short uneventful term as assistant District Attorney in Boston...
...point of view, but what about the man on the other side of the dial? Says Dr. Leo Goldberger, of N.Y.U.'s Research Center for Mental Health: "Long series of numbers, such as Army serial numbers, have come to connote loss of individual identity: one becomes-to add insult to injury-not only an insignificant cog in a great machine, but anonymous as well." Unpleasant things, he feels, are not only more difficult to memorize, but also more likely to be forgotten...