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...fertilizer-and the Spanish Sahara has perhaps another 20%. If Morocco controlled the Sahara, it would have a virtual monopoly and could raise the price of phosphate almost as high as it wanted. Even without the Sahara, it has managed to quintuple prices since 1973, from $14 a ton...
...public-systems management at Columbia: "There is a myth that government can do a job more cheaply because it doesn't have to make a profit." Private industry, in fact, does many city jobs more efficiently than the public work force. While it costs the city $45 a ton to pick up garbage, private contractors do it for $22 a ton in San Francisco, $19 a ton in Boston and $18 a ton in Minneapolis. Their incentives are far greater since the more refuse they collect, the more they are paid. City sanitation men receive the same pay no matter...
Great Britain's Prince Charles has received his first command. Now 27, he will take the helm of H.M.S. Bronington, a sturdy 360-ton minehunter that spends most of its time plowing the North Sea in search of World War II mines. Though the appointment is considered a bleak and boring one among old salts, England's future King is known to welcome any sea duty as a way to escape from royal protocol. On the Bronington, however, Charles may long to be a landlubber again. Explains Kelly Green, 23, a cook on the ship...
...hush falls, the envelope is opened and the winner announced. Calmly, with dignity, the year's best movie actor comes forward to carry off the prized statuette in his teeth. His teeth? Well, at least that's the way it happens in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood. The film, a spoof of the movie business in the 1920s, features Madeline Kahn as WTT's trainer, Art Carney as a tyrannical studio director-plus cameo appearances by Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming and some 60 Hollywood veterans. No matter that Won Ton Ton bears a striking...
...current U.S. effort to negotiate a long-term grain agreement that would end the Soviet practice of plunging disruptively into the U.S. market whenever Russia's own harvests run short. Moscow is, in fact, ready to sign an agreement to purchase between 5 million and 8 million tons of American grain annually over the next five years and allow much of it to be shipped in U.S. vessels at a favorable rate-$16 per ton instead of the current $9.50 per ton...