Word: traded
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...told Congress that it confronted "no more urgent business" than passage of his Safe Streets Act with a $100 million authorization, double the amount he requested last year. He called for a gun-control law to halt "the trade in mail-order murder" (an appeal that roused Robert Kennedy to his only applause during the 50-minute speech). To end "the sale of slavery to the young," he called for a narcotics-control act that would impose harsher penalties for the sale of LSD "and other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total...
Saddened by much of what he found, Glenn showed the audience the sites of the ancient slave trade and pointed out the tall mango trees "grown from seeds spat out by slaves." He winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle...
Like many of his contemporaries on the podium, Mehta nearly always conducts without a score ("Half of our trade is in the eyes"), relying on a fantastic capacity to ingest compositions in a few readings and hold them in his well-stocked memory. During his years with the Montreal orchestra he had to memorize practically an entire new program every week, often while en route between engagements. One of the solutions he worked out was to conduct staging rehearsals of an operatic score while studying an orchestral score that was placed on the floor next to him. This learn...
...Chill Abroad. "Under the new program," maintains Trowbridge, "everyone is sharing the burden-tourism, Government and trade." Outside of Administration circles, that was a lonely view last week. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful George Romney denounced the balance of payments plan as a "major backward move" from free trade, and insisted that Johnson's proposed restrictions on travel "would create a 'Berlin Wall' separating U.S. citizens from the rest of the Atlantic Community." Despite the Administration's globe-hopping efforts, the reaction from abroad turned almost as chilly...
...Tokyo expressed alarm over the possibility that the Administration may ask Congress to enact some form of border taxes to offset those imposed by Common Market countries. Clearly, Johnson's unexpectedly drastic blow at the U.S. payments deficit had strained the intricate fabric of international arrangements for world trade. It will take cool heads and delicate negotiations to avoid some serious rips...