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...thrust of decisions, Fortas, an extraordinarily subtle and precise analyst, is likely to improve their quality. One justified criticism of the Warren court is that the decisions, though progressive and humane, were often so poorly written and negligent of precedent that they were confusing to lawyers and judges in lower courts, who must look on them...
Fearing an invasion of lower-priced foreign goods, the government appealed to the Common Market Commission for protection against Italian home appliances and some types of building material. In an effort to halt the flight of the franc, it also ordered residents of France to take no more than $20 in French currency when they pop abroad for a day's visit. Whatever the ultimate outcome of the elections, a new government's first priority will not be to enact the reforms demanded by the revolt but to cope with its costly economic consequences...
...Manila. Once largely swampland, Makati has been developed since World War I by its most recent owners, the immensely successful (insurance, banking, cattle ranching and oil refining) Ayala family. Now one of the Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak. As a result, Makati's Ayala Avenue is sprouting a forest of office buildings that...
There was also plenty of push and shove lower down on the list. Nine companies appeared for the first time among the industrial corporations with sales of more than a billion dollars: Ling-Temco-Vought, Signal Oil & Gas, Raytheon, Consolidated Foods, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, Getty Oil, TRW and Colgate-Palmolive. Five other corporations-Inland Steel, Grumman Aircraft Engineering, General Tire & Rubber, Jones & Laughlin Steel, and Olin Mathieson Chemical-fell out of that group. In sum, including also the merger of the billion-dollar member Douglas Aircraft into McDonnell Douglas last year, there was a net gain of three...
...little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery. It is the difference between maintaining a yacht and day-chartering a party boat...