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Britain's Anthony Sampson forecasts a dramatically revised political map of Europe. It might shape up as "a world of multinational corporations, making a technological sweep through Europe as another Holy Roman Empire." Central governments would shrink; neglected provinces would return "to their historic roles as the heart of Europe. Alsace, as it once was, could become a separate entity equal to Paris." In this vision of provinces as power blocs, forgotten regions would become a kind of European Third World, playing off the central bureaucracy in Brussels against their own national capitals. The Scots, in fact, have already...
...That year he had sold his house in England, kept the proceeds in sterling, and took a loss. "For the past two years, the U.S. balance of payments figures have been my bedside reading," he says. Last week, as he interviewed financial experts, Beardwood also watched his dollar worth shrink in terms of Belgian francs...
...result is that within only a few generations, the American soil has bloomed as almost no one believed it could. Even though the U.S. farm population has continued to shrink from one out of every seven job holders to one in only 25 just since World War II-U.S. farmers are still able to produce a harvest out of all proportion to the nation's food needs. Whenever such surpluses hit the market, they obviously caused prices to shoot downward, often to the point of cruel losses to the men who grew the food. To this almost unique...
...first announced Harvard's opposition to voluntary surrender of the land, the grounds for support of his position have expanded. The issue is no longer only the obligations of trusteeship, but obligations to the environment and the public interest as well. Harvard must grow into new responsibilities, rather than shrink from its old ones...
...expected of the Oklahoma Democrat when he was first elected Speaker two years ago. He proved to be something of a disappointment. Serious, short a graduate of both the elementary school of Bug Tussle Okla and Oxford, he is one of the brainiest men in Congress but seemed to shrink from the head knocking a strong House leader must perform. Now he promises new toughness; he intends to demand total loyalty from Democrats on the Rules Committee, and he is showing signs of stiffening on the Viet Nam War issue. If Congress is to change, Albert must lead...