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...members entered the Common Market with one big auto manufacturer that dominated its market: Volkswagen, with 40% of production in Germany; government-owned Renault, with 35% in France; Fiat, with 90% in Italy. When the Six first got together, there was widespread suspicion that the major European automakers would succumb to the Continental fondness for cartels and divide the car market into cozy segments. Instead, they have reacted like tiger sharks...
Soup of Life. The underfed peasants succumb easily to TB, gastroenteritis and chistosoma, a debilitating liver parasite that infects one-fifth of the rural population. Average life expectancy in Brazil's Northeast is 30 years, and in Rio Grande do Norte, 463 of every 1,000 babies die in their first year. Most infants are fed a diet of manioc flour mixed with molasses, never taste milk and sometimes do not even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children...
...their forbidding, mechanical bulk, the intricate electronic computers that control so much of U.S. science and industry are often sociable contraptions. Like the human beings who built them, they occasionally succumb to a compulsive need for communication with others of their own kind. Faced with a problem that seems too tough to solve, one computer is perfectly capable of seeking help from another...
...keep the Picassos from overpowering the rooms. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Mrs. Ganz selected massive pieces of authentic Italian Renaissance and Spanish Gothic furniture, mixed them with 17th century English chairs, created a remarkably effective multi-century effect that recognizes Picasso's presence but does not succumb to him altogether...
...Through a Glass Derkly, the hero, who has just watched his daughter succumb to inherited insanity, announces that God is love. Since the young woman has lost her grip on reality in the presence of three who love her deeply, and has been unable to draw either comfort or support from their love, the sentiment seems somewhat irrelevant, but it is an appropriate conclusion to a film laden with unconvincing philosophies and illogical sequences...