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...should survive its present differences. It is, as Jawaharlal Nehru, who spent 23 years in and out of British jails, has observed, "an odd collection of nations which seems to prosper most in adversity...
...forget all about special taxes on imports-all of which would save U.S. taxpayers $365 million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...
...artificial: tax concessions from the Bonn government and wage levels that are lower than in West Germany even make it profitable to barge raw steel into the city from the West, shape it into beams, then ship it back. Berlin's cigarette, liquor and food-processing industries also prosper with the help of tax concessions...
...discount center became part supermarket, part department store, part carnival. (The pretzel vendor who operates in front of Korvette's discount center in Westbury, Long Island, pays Korvette $800 a month rent.) Even when the department stores began opening more and more suburban branches, the discounters continued to prosper...
They swept the big cities, particularly Montreal and traditionally Conservative Toronto, but the prairies held fast for Diefenbaker, the small-town prairie lawyer, whose $425 million grain deal with Red China has helped the farmers prosper. Mike Pearson, the Nobel prize-winning diplomat, had proved to be an attractive Liberal candidate, but an insufficiently forceful one. The laborite New Democrats grabbed another 19 seats...