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Henrik Ibsen once observed that in seafaring Norway "everyone ought to be ready to take the helm." Norwegians take Ibsen at his word. With a population of only 3,700,000, Norway has 372 shipping lines and accounts for 10% of all the merchant ships at sea. Aiming for an even greater share of what is elsewhere considered a depressed indus try, the aggressive Norwegians have ordered, at a cost of $1.1 billion, nearly 20% of all the new merchant vessels under construction throughout the world...
From the customer's point of view, it is unfortunate that she does not want two of Scott, an actor of range and brilliance both on stage (The Merchant of Venice, Desire Under the Elms] and screen (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove). In Wife, he rises above all the plane foolishness to present a perfect caricature of the square-jawed joe on the Air Force recruiting poster. Curtis and Lisi do well to look competent in his company. And some congratulations are due Director Norman Panama, who keeps this airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail...
...competition took many forms, all capitalistic, and gave birth to many different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...
...Speed Merchant...
...only senior who will figure in the battle for first place is the Tigers' Ritchie Geisel-a speed merchant, who has run a 4:11 mile and 9:06 two-mile. Geisel has not performed too well this season in cross-country, but he's the kind who will scare you to death if he's close behind going for the finish...