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That such a blow should be dealt by the former mayor of that city, who rose to prominence because of his courageous insistence that West Berlin survive and prosper in the face of the erection of the Berlin Wall, is particularly ironic. It is yet another sign that cold-war positions are no longer viable in contemporary Europe...
Investors, economists and industrial planners always had to weigh a bewildering number of factors in gauging which industries are likely to prosper and which may decline. Now they have a new imponderable of overpowering importance to consider: how much fuel each business will be apportioned under the Government's allocation plans. President Nixon has already ordered a variety of cuts in fuel distributed to industry generally, but priorities for doling out the remaining supplies among businessmen scrambling for them have not been worked out in detail...
RAILROADS, long starved for profits, should prosper because they use energy efficiently, especially in long hauls...
...stories have replaced the one-and two-story shops in the downtown district. Construction on the country's first subway nears completion. New hotels and proliferating offices of foreign firms have begun to give the capital a cosmopolitan accent. Thousands of nightclubs, cabarets, beer halls and bars prosper, as do the traditional kisaeng houses where hostesses entertain tired businessmen...
Style is all in this world. The revival meetings in the preacher's church and the rock and reggae that float over Kingston like a frowning cloud, are both variations on the same theme. To prosper is to create reality--to find your medium and sell it. In Jamaica, the sudden graft of Western society on to a pre-industrial culture has produced a society where the only alternative to living a mythical electronic life is the clutching poverty of the shacks of West Kingston...