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...aims to become a global carrier, now touches down in 57 countries, compared to 92 for U.S. international airlines. The Soviet navy is second in size only to the U.S. Navy and, as U.S. admirals constantly complain, boasts far newer vessels. Moscow's fleet of some 2,600 merchant ships is second to none. In the 95 capitals where Moscow maintains diplomatic representation (up from 71 in 1965), sophisticated commercial attaches are replacing the ill-mannered salesman in the ill-fitting suit who for years was the Soviet stereotype and the object of scorn...
...coming of Fall seemed to promise some respite from the daily tension of the confrontation between street culture and commercial demands, as street people began to leave and well-heeled Harvard students-the Cambridge merchant's best friends-began to filter back in. But nobody was willing to make long range predictions. The police and the merchants seemed to be increasingly willing to use whatever means were required to transform the Square into a safe place for business. Talking to two longhairs at the end of the summer, one Cambridge policeman, not unsympathetic, seemed to put it best...
...race, which was eventually won by a cheerful merchant navy officer named Robin Knox-Johnston, had been sponsored by the London Sunday Times. Two Times reporters. Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, took on the task of deciphering the record of the only contestant-out of nine-who did not return. Before they were through, they went far beyond Donald Crowhurst's logs. The resulting book is a portrait of the ill-fated adventurer as well as an examination of his tragic voyage and dishonest messages. It is about a man who attempted an elaborate fraud, went slowly insane...
...only two offerings of the current London theater do script and staging mesh at a truly first-rate level: Ingmar Bergman's production of Hedda Gabler and Jonathan Miller's of The Merchant of Venice, both for the National Theater. Yet even these are star vehicles, Hedda for Maggie Smith, and Merchant for Laurence Olivier as Shylock (at least until recently when a thrombosis forced him off the stage for three months). In most of London's other notable productions, playwrights and directors more or less suffer stellar eclipses...
Maxwell, a Member of Parliament until he was defeated in the June election, was held in considerably greater esteem in London's financial community. Last year, advised by merchant bankers N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Saul Steinberg, 31, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp., made a $60 million bid for control of Pergamon. The ebullient Steinberg saw Pergamon's big library of scientific data as a logical complement to Leasco (1969 sales: $101 million), which has aggressively moved into all phases of computer information services as well as management consulting and insurance...