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...British exports. "There has been vociferous criticism of American enterprise seizing the so-called new 'commanding heights' of our economy," says Hyman. "I can only observe that had it not done so, such heights might only have been molehills. Without this investment we would be in a parlous state...
...frankincense and myrrh. That about takes care of its distinctions. Hardly more than a stretch of East African desert, the country is sun-scorched and poor and was, until recently, hopeless as well. At last, though, someone in Somalia has decided to do something about the country's parlous state. Premier Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 39, who took office only nine months ago, has created the most hopeful atmosphere since Somalia won independence in 1960 simply by facing up to problems that everyone else had long ignored. This week, in recognition of his efforts, Egal will be received by President...
...nearly eight years, the Russians have been vainly trying to bring about a Communist summit, chiefly in order to embarrass and isolate the renegade Chinese. Now that they have finally got their way, they have few illusions about what will be achieved. In fact, the meeting demonstrates the parlous disrepair into which the once proud Communist monolith has fallen...
...reason U.S. amateur tennis is in such parlous shape is that talent too often goes unrewarded. Puerto Rico's Charles Pasarell, for example, has won two straight U.S. Indoor championships and was the only American even to reach the men's quarterfinals at Wimbledon-yet he was passed over for the 1967 Davis Cup team. Then there is Billie Jean Moffitt King...
...four American families carry automobile insurance, and frustration over accident claims is only one of their woes. There are also protests against big premium increases, abrupt policy cancellations and lax state regulation of fly-by-night companies. The $9 billion-a-year auto insurance business is in such parlous shape that James J. Meyers, vice president for claims of the Crum & Forster insurance group, says the whole works may well become "a dying industry unless we reappraise our practices...