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...sturdy black lace-ups, Nevelson was a little doubtful about the location of her work among the luxury apartment houses of upper Park Avenue. Some passers-by agreed with her, though not for the same reason. "It's hideous!" exclaimed a matron only to be overruled by a threeyear-old completely attuned to Nevelson's wave length. "It isn't the Statue of Liberty," he cried. "What's it called...
...Israeli government agreed, and now at last something is being done about the problem. Pinhas Koppell, a former police inspector-general, has been put in charge of the Football Federation and will supervise a threeyear, $750,000 program to civilize soccer. Referees have been granted disability pay if injured, and their life insurance policies have been doubled. Penalties for violence are stiff and swift. For damaging a referee's car, the players on one team were suspended for up to three years, and their stadium was closed down. For spitting at a referee, Jerusalem Hapoel's Zion Turjeman...
More and more city officials are discovering that it can cost some 15% less to hire a private garbage contractor than to run their own frequently featherbedded sanitation system. The city of Middletown, Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that will save the city an estimated $350,000. This week, for the first time in its history, Chicago will have a private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities...
Peterson ended his talks convinced that more big deals like the recent threeyear, $750 million bilateral grain agreement are likely. Indeed, U.S. agriculture officials predicted last week that the Soviets would expand their purchases of farm products to as much as $1 billion in the next twelve months alone. Last week Peterson reported to President Nixon that eight days of trade talks with Soviet officials had disclosed "a top-level Soviet decision that it is important to get access to Western products." He also briefed TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter on the promise and the problems of Soviet-American trade. Schecter...
...million worth of jet equipment to China. Representatives of dozens of U.S. firms returned from a high-level meeting in Warsaw aimed at substantially increasing U.S. trade with Eastern Europe. Then, at week's end the White House announced a blockbuster: the Soviet Union has signed a threeyear, $750 million agreement for the purchase of American grains-on terms extremely favorable to the U.S. It was the largest grain deal ever made between two countries...