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...modern sales promotion and advertising could upset the harmony and order that are so much a part of the Japanese way of life. Foreign firms might also challenge the cozy arrangements under which Japanese businesses divide up their home markets. As a result, the Japanese have erected a bewildering maze of restrictive regulations. Foreign-owned firms can make wire but not cable, cameras but not lenses, watches or clocks but not both. Imports of 120 items, including such U.S. specialties as computers and leather goods, are either banned or severely limited...
...costs of land in Cambridge, and the high construction costs everywhere, continuing subsidies are required to bring rents down to these levels. Given the alternatives of paying the subsidies out of its won pocked or seeking government aid, the Corporation broke with its past reluctance to plunge into the maze of Federal housing aid programs for low-income housing...
...feared might die with the dancer. The opening-night program included the serene Canticle for Innocent Comedians, a work inspired by the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi, and last performed in 1953. There were other old favorites, like the 1946 Dark Meadow and the 1947 Errand into the Maze, both symbol-laden ritualistic works, which give the current programs far more the look of Graham retrospectives than was the case in previous Manhattan appearances. From the looks of it all, Martha Graham, a month short of her 75th birthday, is finally reconciled to being a part of history...
...EVOLUTION of Harvard Square has also hurt the Coop. The traffic maze and the shortage of convenient parking has discouraged many regular customers from coming into the Square to shop anymore, Brown believes. Moreover, the "hippy milieu" of the Square in the fall and spring keeps Harvard wives from shopping the Coop. "These attitudes may very will be misconceptions," Brown says, "but the simple fact is that a lot of housewives are a little scared to shop in the Square...
Byzantine Labyrinth. In The Valley of Bones (the seventh novel), Nick Jenkins was an officer in a Welsh regiment training for the invasion. Now he has been transferred to the offices of the British general staff in Whitehall. In that bureaucratic maze, Powell's khaki characters may seem less military than dilatory. But anyone who has inhabited the Byzantine labyrinths of noncombat wartime staff headquarters will recognize the wry truth of Powell's picture of intrigue, futility and boredom...