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...court's tougher line stems from the 1950 amendments to the Clayton Act, particularly to the broad and vaguely worded Section 7. It now prohibits a corporation from acquiring stock or assets of another "where in any line of commerce . . . the effect . . . may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." In case after case, the trustbusters are applying Section 7 with success. It was the basis for the 1957 decision forcing Du Pont to sell its 23% of outstanding stock in General Motors; in the important 1962 Brown Shoe-Kinney case, the court used...
...that seemed academic once Eagle started racing. Aiming for an all-weather boat, Designer Luders had purposely given Eagle a low center of gravity to make her point higher in high winds, a shortened keel to lessen drag in light air. In gusty, 15-knot breezes, she stood straight as a shark's fin; and she ghosted gently through pockets of virtual calm, finding momentum where none seemed possible. In all of the seven races, Skipper Cox outmaneuvered his rivals at the start, pouring backwind into their sails and slipping out in front. And when it came to tacking...
...dangers of its widening policy differences with Washington. De Gaulle is said to have decided that it is time to switch to a more harmonious tone in his relations with the US.?not only because disharmony weakens the West, but also because he hopes thereby to lessen U.S. resistance to his vision of a French-dominated confederation of European states. When President Johnson recently proposed that U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball go to Paris to review the Administration's latest plans for military and diplomatic resistance to Communist encroachment in Southeast Asia, De Gaulle was a model...
...lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves. And for a jib, she will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained...
...professionally her hair reaches past her waist. Her mother binds it. "She knows just how to make the knot, but I don't," says Chrys. "It's her secret." Does it hurt? "Yes, but you get used to the pain." Does she do anything special to lessen the strain? "I eat vitamin pills-A and B-and I brush my hair a lot," she says. "And I wash it once a week like everybody else." What kind of shampoo? "That's another secret...