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...York Stock Exchange. But abroad there was consternation. Nixon's measures threatened a serious reversal of the postwar trend toward freer trade. They also ripped the fraying international monetary agreements that have made expanded trade possible. Canada and Japan, America's two largest trading partners, sent anxious emissaries to plead for explanations...
...lobbies, including the purebred cattlemen's associations, mistrust urban 4-H programs because they divert extension experts from the agribusiness. The governing board of this year's Indiana State Fair has not provided space for several displays produced by the new urban projects. Although the fair managers plead that the programs are still too insignificant to be represented, to State Leader Frickey the omission is symptomatic. "They'll have an exhibit on corn blight, and that's fine," he says. "But the time is coming when they're going to have to recognize that...
...Element. The apparent finality did not daunt Shearin. He offered to take custody of Eisentrager and lined up a job for him as a probation counselor in Gaithersburg, Md. Last month he returned to Nevada to plead Eisentrager's case before the parole board. Though it had unanimously turned down the convict's parole bid once before, the board this time voted 4 to 2 for his release. One of the dissenters, Justice John Mowbray, who had sentenced Eisentrager originally, asked, "Why is this man being treated any differently than any lifer? Others in his same position think...
Consider the sorry lot of Author Erich Segal (Love Story). Airline stewardesses slip him their apartment keys; eager ladies really believe that love means not having to say you're sorry; TV headliners plead for personal appearances. "I'm going into hiding," the beleaguered bachelor told reporters last week. "I want to be alone. I'm so overexposed it's unbelievable. My apartment is a fishbowl." Segal, 33, a classics professor at Yale, plans to take a leave of absence after this semester to devote himself to "scholarly research." Where? "I can't tell...
From then on, betting on the Royals was like picking Perry Mason to plead guilty...