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...trade is an instrument for gaining leverage over Soviet behavior, the U.S. has yet to figure out how to use it. One school says: Trade with the Soviets a lot-get them to drink our soda pop, wear our blue jeans, buy our ball bearings and computers and grain-and they'll become more like us and depend more on us. That view is held by some diehard advocates of détente and prominent American businessmen, such as Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum and Donald Kendall of Pepsico. The other school says: Don't trade with them...
...plane began to dive toward the ground, several passengers and members of the crew charged the rebels, swinging soda and beer bottles, mops, umbrellas and even pieces of molding ripped off the cabin walls. In desperation, the hijackers touched off the explosives in the lavatory, blowing a hole about 4 ft. wide in the side of the aircraft. The undaunted posse of passengers and crew members began battering the hijackers while the pilot struggled to gain control of the plummeting aircraft. "There was a lot of blood and screaming," W.J. Gunther of Flemington, N.J., remembered later. "It was like...
...regularly consume buttermilk, vitamins, herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough...
Traveling businessmen should be prepared for some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...audience is particularly aware of this. The men, for instance, wear jackets and ties. Everybody applauds the conductor when he first appears. At intermission, they buy soda at fifty cents...