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Japan announced that within 16 months it will cancel restrictions on a wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
...finance the undeveloped, while many a rebuilt, well-financed country has maintained tariff walls against U.S. goods or tight controls on dollar purchases. Samples: Britain still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some imports from the U.S. even when U.S. prices are cheaper. Last week...
...Virginia Gentleman and Jack Daniels (Black Label) are IN; Scotch-type whisky, French-type wines, cheese-type spreads and lettuce-type salads are OUT. ¶ A 190 SL Mercedes-Benz is IN but not so far IN as a 1916 Fierce-Arrow; waving at another Mercedes is OUT. Wearing a checkered sports cap will get your parking permit canceled; wearing a Homburg will cause comment...
...Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister mixture...
...Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...