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...Trade Act, for example, denies the most-favored-nation status to the Soviet Union because of its reluctance to grant sufficient emigration visas to Soviet Jews. Moscow claims such restrictions have cost the U.S. $2 billion in sales. Since Carter canceled the sale of a $6.8 million Sperry Rand computer to Tass for the 1980 Olympics in order to show displeasure with the trials of Soviet dissidents last July, the Russians have been dickering with the Western Europeans for a replacement. In one typical instance involving Argentina, the State Department nearly blocked a helicopter sale to the rightist military regime...
...case it would take years to measure the matter adequately. Three years have passed. Now comes a new study that has the advantage of being able to see the effects of busing in a slightly longer perspective. Produced by Harvard-trained David Armor, 39, a senior sociologist at the Rand Corp., the report seems to bear out many of Coleman's early fears...
...soldiers never die. They just fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure...
...several weeks they have been at the off-Broadway Theater East, and next month will be in Washington, performing for President Carter and 1,000 other assorted Democrats at a giant party fund raiser in the Washington Hilton. In October, assuming they have not conquered the world, Monteith & Rand will probably be on Broadway, where the Shubert Organization has already offered them the Booth Theater...
With few exceptions, the skits are marvelously funny, but Monteith & Rand show their real talent in improvisation. They ask the crowd to supply a setting and a couple of sentences, and they do the rest. One night last week, for example, the audience put them in Moscow, ordered them to begin the scene with a meaningless sentence, "He who hesitates laughs last," and while they were at it work in a reference to Christina Onassis. There was a second's hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last...