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...face up there in the sky looking down on you," the President said. Replied Leahy: "I'll have to go to the Capitol physician first to get my arm put back in the socket." Vermont offered little escape. At Sunday Mass, an usher passing the collection bas ket leaned over and whispered, "Vote against AWACS." Leahy finally...
Shoemaking, for instance, is well suited to Third World nations because it requires little capital and manpower is plentiful. South Korea and Taiwan, whose rapid economic progress has set an example for the entire underdeveloped world, are utterly dependent on the U.S. mar ket for the sale of shoes. In just nine years, Brazil has created from virtually nothing a $170 million shoe export business...
...future is eroding already weak retail sales. Consumer Pollster Albert Sindlinger of Swarthmore, Pa., reports that during the three weeks of minisummits the public followed the news, was well aware of the Administration's position and was not heartened. Some Wall Streeters suspect that the stock mar ket's nosedive last week (see box page 40) was accelerated by some of the candid assessments of the depth of economic trouble that came out of the summit...
...marketing, of all things, TV sets in Japan, and embarrassed Sony executives had no choice but to comply. So, while Americans continue to buy great numbers of Sony and other Japanese TV sets, Motorola is about to give Sony some com petition in the Japanese mar ket for large-screen color...
...Many Tears? Each boy's life story is a vignette of the war. Hua Ket, 12, survived an attack on his village by U.S. planes because he was playing in a distant field; an old woman sent him to Saigon, and for three years he shined shoes and slept on the streets until he moved to Hughes' "Hope 5" hostel. After his father was killed by the Viet Cong, Nguyen Van Thanh. 12, ran away from his village and met a bar girl who brought him to Saigon; there he ran away again and moved to the streets...