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...shipbuilding. The demand for shipping that was whetted by the new Persian Gulf oilfields faded abruptly in 1959, when the U.S. put quotas on oil imports. Result: a worldwide glut of cargo space. To glean what new orders there are, the big U.S. and European shipyards have had to slice deeply into their profits to come up with low bids, but they are still losing ground to the front-running, highly efficient and low-paying Japanese...
...Renloan war was of course a show. It was enacted in a swampy, gnat-infested, 3½-million acre slice of North and South Carolina. Some 70,000 U.S. soldiers and flyers played the parts of the invaders and the defenders. But it was also a deadly serious show-the biggest U.S. peacetime maneuvers since bewildered draftees, carrying wooden machine guns, sludged through the Louisiana boondocks in 1941. And the exercise was the first major test of a new U.S. fighting force: STRIKE Command. (The Russians were also conducting some imaginative war games of their own-see THE WORLD...
...medieval romances, knights grow nobler from suffering. The Cloven Viscount, Medardo of Terralba, grows worse. He is cut cleanly in two from head to crotch by a Turkish cannon ball, and one half of him is saved by doctors. This half returns home with a maniacal urge to slice everything else in two: flowers, mushrooms, small animals. "If only I could halve every whole thing like this," the viscount philosophizes, "so that everyone would escape from his obtuse and ignorant wholeness. Beauty and knowledge and justice only exists in what has been cut to shreds...
...have come to the day when a piece of freedom is not enough for us as human beings nor for the nation of which we are part. We have been given pieces, but unlike bread, a slice of which does diminish hunger, a piece of liberty no longer suffices. Freedom is like life. You cannot be given life in installments. You cannot be given breath but not body, nor a heart but no blood vessels. Freedom is one thing-you have it all, or you are not free...
...successfully made money out of newspapers for 40 years. Beginning with the $49,000 he invested in 1922 for a slice of the tiny, money-losing Staten Island Advance, he has spent some $122 million collecting properties that now include not only his newspapers but three radio stations, six TV stations and two magazine publishing firms, a 66% interest in Conde Nast and Street & Smith. By conservative estimate, these possessions are worth $250 million today. They produce a handsome annual gross in excess of $125 million...