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...tobacco, rice, wheat, electronic components and computers. Almost anybody who tries to sell to Japan has to put up with a tortuous process of securing bank-issued licenses and coping with health restrictions (common American food additives are banned) and petty labeling requirements (all figures must be in the metric system). Even more vexing to U.S. businessmen are the straitjacket rules on foreign investment. For example, outsiders are still forbidden to own more than 50% of practically any Japanese firm. These barriers have held U.S. business investment in Japan to a rather meager $365 million...
Last week Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans sent Congress a 188-page report suggesting that the U.S. at last forsake bushels, pecks, inches, feet, ounces, pounds and furlongs in favor of the metric system used by more than 90% of the earth's population...
...nation's industrial equipment to the new measure. Conversion, according to a Stans aide, should increase American exports by $1 billion or $2 billion a year. Under the Constitution, only Congress can set a national system of weights and measures. It is not very auspicious that the metric system, adopted in France around 1800, was first urged on the U.S. Congress by Jefferson...
...them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling kind of music that seems to have been drilled into the central nervous systems of Muddy and his six sidemen...
...peers when it came to observing human foibles with a kind of wry delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected...