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...same time, though, the expense of keeping U.S. military forces abroad will grow (unless offset payments from host allies also increase). The devaluation thus could diminish the U.S. role in the world in blunt military terms-and psychologically as well. Yet if the humbling of the dollar seemed to diminish American eminence, it also demonstrated that the U.S. is increasingly learning to face the inevitable and measure its power more realistically...
...IMPORTS of Volkswagens, Yamaha motorcycles, French wines, British woolens and many other goods will cost more. The effect of the currency shifts will be offset somewhat by removal of the import surcharge, and some importers may try to keep dollar prices down in an effort to hold markets. A trade specialist of the Union Bank of Switzerland, however, estimates that "even with the surcharge removed, Swiss watches will be 15% more expensive in America." Certainly not all U.S. consumers will switch to American-made products. Fanciers of Scotch whisky, for instance, are unlikely to opt for bourbon...
...offset rising costs, the Queen has dropped 70 people from her domestic staff, leaving only 46 to run Buckingham Palace. The job of winding and cleaning palace clocks has been contracted to a private firm. Even the royal gardens are now expected to pay their way; in a good year, sale of their flowers, mushrooms and vegetables returns a small profit...
...York Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch is responsible for New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, with 98 electoral votes. Chappaquiddick will indeed be an issue, and it will hurt Kennedy?but not enough to offset his strengths. A Kennedy candidacy would make a Nixon-Kennedy election largely a personality contest, and the Kennedy charisma would outweigh Chappaquiddick, although the impact of the bridge would vary from state to state. He would probably lose in Delaware and Maryland. Chappaquiddick would reduce his chances in Pennsylvania to at best an even choice. But the freer lifestyles of New York...
American Motors wisely presented what commission members considered a model application, and won prompt approval for an increase of 2.5%ty is not rising sufficiently fast to offset the forthcoming wage boosts. The commission also compared American's past internal forecasts of profits and losses with actual results to determine that the company has developed reliable methods of predicting what earnings will be at a given level what earnings will be at a given level of car sales, and then accepted American's contention that a 2.5% price rise will not increase profit margins. Lanzilotti pledged, however, that the commission...