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...under the new deal the industrial nations of the Kennedy Round would come out pretty much "in balance." The Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other items vulnerable to technologically superior outside competition. The U.S. reduced duties on 6,000 imports. The maximum 50% tariff cuts should please foreign manufacturers in many areas, including aircraft (chiefly Britain), still cameras (Common Market...
Compulsive Kook. Offstage, the Smothers Brothers are like the two halves of a split personality. Dick is the stable, soft-spoken father of three who would like to retire and tinker with his fleet of seven cars. Tom is a walking jangle of exposed nerve ends. He has an ulcer and has divorced his wife. He arrives at the studio on a motorcycle toting a kiddie's lunch box filled with avocado sandwiches, which he munches during rehearsals to placate his ulcer. He is a compulsive kook, strolls into a nightclub and begins waiting on tables, tools around town...
...Ohio-born divorcee with two adopted daughters, Mary Wells was educated at Carnegie Tech, wrote copy for Macy's, McCann-Erickson and Doyle Dane Bernbach before joining Jack Tinker & Partners in 1964. There, she and her present partners, Richard Rich, 37, and Stewart Greene, 39, ran some notable successes up the flagpole. They were responsible for the whimsical ads ("No matter what shape your stomach's in . . .") that boosted Alka-Seltzer sales by $13.3 million. When Braniff International President Harding Lawrence came to Tinker in 1965, Wells thought up the idea of painting Braniff's jets...
...always seem eager for such assistance. When a non-profit group of academic planners who call themselves Urban Planning Aid (UPA) recently helped a Roxbury neighborhood facing renewal to win concessions from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the BRA's director, Edward J. Logue, denounced UPA as a group of "tinker toy boys" using the renewal program as "an academic exercise." UPA, as it happens, includes two members of the Joint Center and has its offices at the same address as the annex of the Center. There is also talk of a more formal affiliation between the two groups. Moynihan insists...
...first five months of the current upheaval, they ignored the PLA and put all their faith in the Red Guard. Now it appears that their problem may be the small impression ideological devices have made on the army officers. In the past month, Mao and Lin have begun to tinker with the army mechanism. They have taken some of their doubtful supporters out of the central military administration and have begun to use the PLA in selected skirmishes...