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...decided that the Six's tariff hike on chick ens had cost the U.S. $26 million in exports. Though the estimate of losses was only about half as high as the U.S. had argued, both sides could claim victory-the Common Market because the loss figure was much nearer to its estimates, the U.S. because the ruling implied that the Market's tariffs were discriminatory...
...student awakened each morning in his Leverett Towers suite by the soft eleven o'clock chimes from Mem Church, nothing could seem more remote than 5 a.m. revellie at Fort Dix. Yet that bugle call is sounding nearer every day. As a result of President Kennedy's Executive Order dropping all married men to the bottom of the IA draft pool, the draft is moving well into the college years. According to General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, "in a few months a student with a IA rating will be lucky if he can reach age 22 without...
...juggling or obscuring them. One Brussels bank lists the value of its 24-story headquarters at 2?. And though Germany's automaking Daimler-Benz reported a $10 million net profit for 1961, German financial experts reckon, on the basis of its taxes, that its actual earnings were nearer to $50 million. This lack of reliable information scares small European investors away from investing in European stocks and is a chief reason why Europe has failed to develop a capital market. As a result, instead of turning to the public for funds, European companies must turn to the banks, which...
...important thing is that Clay deserves the praise. He has helped boxing get nearer to respectability. I feel he may offer as much to sports as another Louisville athlete Harold "Pee Wee" Reese did in recent years. He may even be "the greatest...
When the earth is between the sun and Saturn and sunlight is falling on the rings from over the earth's shoulder, the rings get suddenly brighter. This effect can be explained by an assumption that the rings are made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter...