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Roused from his sleep by shortness of breath and a feeling of pressure on his chest one night six years ago, Sidney Schwartz of Manhattan sensed that it was a heart attack. Even as he called his doctor he began to worry about how his illness would restrict his activities. That anxiety proved baseless. At 63, Schwartz today is doing everything he did before his coronary-and then some. Says he: "I feel great...
...traditional European response to such troubles has been to form a cartel to restrict production and raise prices, but that way out is no longer easy. Last March the West German Cartel Office fined nine German companies $15 million on charges of fixing prices and sharing markets. The companies are appealing, but the Common Market's trustbusters are studying the case to see if the nine also should be brought before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The companies may escape further chastisement, but for reasons that can give them only cold comfort. The cartel was terribly inefficient...
...sweeping attempt to put controls on companies of all sizes, down to side-street delicatessens and hand laundries, with only a small enforcement mechanism. Now the operation has been streamlined into something much closer to what most economists had recommended all along. The Nixon Administration will restrict controls to the major companies that set the pace for the economy, and back the controls by tougher policing and the threat of well-publicized punishment...
...Australia, too, the welcome mat is being pulled back a bit. Nationalist suspicion was brought to a head when ITT, internationally somewhat notorious because of its political troubles at home, tried to buy Frozen Foods Industries of Australia Ltd. The Australian Cabinet last week hurriedly decided in principle to restrict foreign takeovers, though formal rules are unlikely to be framed for months...
Peanuts and Corn. Basically, the Government tries to restrict production by paying farmers to reduce the amount of land that they cultivate. It also seeks to prop up the market for crops like wheat, corn, rice and peanuts by guaranteeing a minimum price. Farmers can collect money for taking land out of production, then increase the yield on the acreage they do use, and collect at least the support price on all that they raise. A study last year by former Budget Director, Charles Schultze, estimated that consumers pay an extra $4.5 billion a year for food because of price...