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...strict economic standards, building modern passenger ships to ply the Atlantic makes little sense. A luxury liner costs upwards of $50 million; a utilitarian jet costs one-tenth as much, can carry 15% more passengers over the same distance in the same amount of time. Moreover, the airlines have captured four-fifths of the Atlantic business, and several shipping companies are in trouble. These cold facts do not, however, chill the warmly sentimental directors of the state-run Italian Line. In the greatest investment in money and tonnage ever made by a shipping company in a single year, the line...
...there have been many failures and difficulties. One of the major problems still facing the organization is how to inter rate white Irish and Italian families into what is now an almost wholly Negro movement. As one worker put it, "Even if you organize ten per cent of the people (Boston is one-tenth Negro), you'll need allies...
...MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA are locked in an equally ominous enmity. Even without open war, both may come apart at the seams. Indonesia's Sukarno, whose own regime has been plagued by revolts among distant islanders, wages guerrilla war against British-backed little Malaysia (one-tenth Indonesia's size). Malaysia itself, a precarious geographical creation, is sapped by hatred between its Malay and Chinese population (each 40% of the total). Easygoing Moslem Malays claim that the Chinese, who dominate Malaysia's economy, reek of money, while Singapore's Chinese Premier says, "The Malay does not respond...
...that consumers are inexorably controlled by the weather in their buying habits. Statisticians found that every degree of temperature below normal on any day in spring, and every degree above normal on any day in fall, will cause retail sales to fall off exactly 1%. Furthermore, they reported, every one-tenth inch of rain that falls between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on any day inevitably depresses sales...
Peter (Dick Shawn) and Pat (Joan Hackett) enter marriage with eight-ninths of a child, one-tenth of an income, and 999/1,000 of a conviction on Pat's part that she has enough love for the three of them. The infant is not seen but heard, and the squally Eine kleine Nachtmusik rasps on Peter's and Pat's sleep-starved nerves with the first intimation that they are somewhere east of Eden...