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Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...
...interesting merchandise that our customers would like." says Presdient Marvin Traub, recalling how the venture began in 1971. When the White House lifted the embargo on trade that summer. Traub immediately called a friendly French importer of Chinese goods and persuaded him to redirect to Bloomingdale's a shipment already on route to France. Result: on Oct. 25, 1971 the very day the U.N. gave a seat to the People's Republic, Bloomingdale's opened its "China Passage" shop. The timing helped to make the shop an immediate hit. Woven rattan baskets, bamboo ladders and other simple...
Jill Ta llmer '76, one of the heads of the counselling organization, said yesterday Room 13 received a carton of Terry Southern's "Blue Movie" along with the expected shipment of "Student Guide...
Since the discovery of major oilfields in the mid-'60s, China has become an economic power to reckon with. The first significant shipment of petroleum, 7 million bbl., was sent to oil-thirsty Japan only two years ago. Total oil exports this year are estimated at 70 million bbl. By 1980, oil shipments abroad are expected to reach 350 million bbl. and amount to one-third of the country's exports. China's trade, which remained virtually static at about $4.5 billion annually through the long years of isolation, jumped to $6 billion in 1972 and reached...
...being penalized much if they were. The basic U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1909 to protect the printed word and was seldom enforced against electronic banditry. Federal law makes it only a misdemeanor to sell stolen films unless they are sent across state lines or abroad and the shipment is worth more than $5,000; so pirates found it profitable to keep selling pilfered films and treat as nuisance taxes the small fines that might result...