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...finding trade offices and homes for businessmen. Soviet-American trade has already risen dramatically (from $200 million in 1971 to $1.4 billion in 1973), and only last week, coincident with the summit, the Occidental Petroleum Corp. signed a series of 20-year contracts with the Soviets for a giant swap of chemicals. Though money would not change hands, the value of the barter deal at current prices would be about $20 billion...
...drama records the 20th reunion of the 1954 Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Champions. Four of the players gather in their coach's living room to relive the glory of their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...
...have a message for George Meany. We have a message for Leonard Woodcock. We have a message for Frank Fitzsimmons. You can tell them we didn 't come here to swap recipes...
...primitive form of commercial exchange that became outmoded centuries ago with the appearance of money. But in the U.S., barter is suddenly coming back strong. Beset by shortages of many basic raw materials and finished goods, purchasing agents for the most modern corporations are turning into sultans of swap: they obtain scarce products that their companies need by offering goods that are in equally short supply...
Still, frustrations persist. Rabinowitz is consumed by guilt when he finds himself enjoying the freedom to read or play music. Onaitis is forced to sublimate his success drive by remodeling an old house. And some couples discover that the swap can add unnecessary family expenses-at least at the beginning. Onaitis, for example, who frequently squanders part of the weekly food budget his wife gives him on his favorite toasted soybeans and sunflower seeds, once signed up for seven magazine subscriptions in one day. He liked the salesman...