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From your story "Lots of Smiles but Few Sales" [Oct. 16], it appears that the generous-but naive-foster parents have nurtured in Japan an avaricious monster. Perhaps it is time for manufacturers, labor unions and the "taxpayer revolt" to demand equivalent protective tariffs, import-license red tape, quotas, etc., for such a shrewd economic predator, who prospers hugely at our inflationary expense...
...Nurtured Monster...
...Hydra-headed monster will disappear. The varieties will be fewer and easier to understand." Not all bargain plans will be eliminated, but several have already been allowed to expire quietly, and some airlines would be happy with just a three-class plan of simple, straight first-class, coach and economy fares...
...about a minute and accepted a new bat from Mickey Rivers (he had the wrong one) before stepping back in the batter's box. Torrez hung a watermelon-sized curveball over the plate on the next pitch, and Dent pop-gunned it into the screen, just over the Green Monster...
WHEN THE AWESOME threat of nuclear power first reared its deadly head in the mid '40s, it scared the living hell out of all but the most maniacal "science marches on" people. The world had already seen enough carnage during the Big One; suddenly this omnipotent man-made monster appeared--a god of death that could vaporize entire cities in one nightmarish burst. Thirty years ago no consensus of feelings about The Bomb existed, but one thing was certain--everyone had a lot of respect, and fear, for nuclear technology. In some ways, that ominous and justifiably paranoid feeling remains...