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...carefree is life on the islands (pop. 46,000) that few Seychellois work more than half a day, and nearly half their children are illegitimate. At Victoria, the ramshackle capital on the island of Mahe, the town clock, a silver-painted model of Big Ben in the main square, strikes the hour twice for the benefit of those who forget to count the first time. Until recently, the Seychelles' liveliest political issue was whether it would rain on the Legislative Council election...
Mating the vehicle to the needs of man has been a challenge for a good many centuries. Around 700 B.C., Assyrian King Sennacherib undertook to keep chariots from parking along a main highway. ROYAL ROAD, LET NO MAN DECREASE IT, said the no-parking sign, and any man who decreased the road was soon deceased. Ancient Rome banned all women from driving chariots, and decreed that no one could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with...
Shifting the Burden. There were practical considerations behind this year's surge in integration. Some school districts simply got tired of trying to fend off the courts. But the main reason was that many districts desperately need federal help to keep their schools going -and the 1964 Civil Rights Act says that they cannot have federal money unless they integrate the schools...
Growing Appetite. The regionals serve as a marketplace for shares of companies too small or local to be listed on the bigger exchanges, but the function is declining. Today only 739 stocks are traded exclusively on regional exchanges v. 1,300 in 1940. Their main role has changed to being that of a secondary market for shares traded on the New York and American boards, whose prices they closely follow. The surge in the price of seats reflects the growing appetite among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange to join the regional exchanges-notably the six largest that...
After just 150 days in office, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler last week took off for Europe on a two-week trip to meet and hear the views of his counterparts among the finance ministers and central bankers of Europe. Main purpose: to canvass European opinion about the next steps toward world monetary reform and to seek support of Fowler's proposal for a world monetary conference. The importance of the trip was underscored by the fact that Fowler was accompanied by Undersecretary of State George Ball, Treasury Undersecretary Fred Deming and five Treasury, State and White House aides...