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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Trade-Can the U.S. Still Compete?" [May 10], you did not mention one very important reason why imports into the U.S. are rising at such a stupendous pace: shoddily made American products. Not only are imports often much lower in price, but in many cases they are of a quality that is unrivaled by the U.S. We bought a Japanese car that is one of the finest built vehicles I have seen, and gets 31 miles to the gallon of gasoline. This can be repeated in tape recorders, optical goods and many more items. U.S. industry and labor have...
...hand. "That's my farm program," he said. "Give it back quickly." Of course, he has done more to raise farm prices than anyone else; just think, he says, of the milk, eggs and bread his children consume. Are his crowds packed with the young? "I'm going to lower the voting age to seven." What about all that money he's spending? He quotes from Jack: "I have a message from my father: 'I don't mind spending money, but please don't buy one more vote than is necessary...
...Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast...
...etiquette book devotes at least one chapter to their usage. One, in fact, deals with nothing else: Das Grosse Anrede Buck-the giant book of proper addresses-which lists about 1,500 of the most important titles and explains in detail which ones take precedence over others. Often, the lower the title, the greater its length. The winner: Erster Hauptwachtmeister im Strafvollzugsdienst, which denotes the post of first watchman in the penal system...
...least 15 of the new courses will count towards the lower-level Gen Ed requirement, Edward T. Wilcox, director of the committee, said yesterday. He said that no decision had been made on whether three others would be classified as lower-level or upper-level...