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...presenting The Exception and the Rule, director Steve Most had to make dramatic a play that would rather drone. "Weak men die, strong men fight," bellows the Merchant as he drives his coolie across the desert of an Eastern land to be first at the new oil deposits. Obviously a faithful reader of Herbert Spencer, the Merchant is inhumanly exploiting the coolie, who only wants to make an honest...
...father is often called a fisherman in the press, but this, she explains, "only means that he fished all the time." Trained at the Royal Academy, she was nearly always cast as a sex merchant- before Bergman found her. "I always had to play femme fatale roles because I looked a little exotic for Sweden. I never looked like a Swedish woman. I had to play sophisticated ladies with low necks and yulery," she explains, fingering imaginary pearls. Bergman concealed her lavish charms. "It's fun to work with him," she says. "We get very involved emotionally for three...
Unlike West Europe's struggling merchant fleets, the state-owned Communist shippers-mostly Polish and East German-have no qualms about operating at a loss, and can thus carry goods at almost any rate they please. Their motives are far more political than economic. They seek political prestige by showing their flags on the world's seaways, and are glad to get badly needed foreign exchange even if the state has to pay a premium...
...Communists play the game, there is no give and take. With a state monopoly on all imports and exports in their own countries, they bar the door against any Western price competition in Iron Curtain ports. The merchant fleets of West Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Holland are feeling the pinch, and fear that it can only get worse. The Poles and East Germans have modern fleets totaling more than 300 ships, and they plan to double that number by 1970. The Soviet Union has 1,280 vessels, and it, too, is aiming at twice as many...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...