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...there is an equal chance that the President is casting himself as the sorcerer's apprentice. Protectionism has been a powerful force throughout U.S. history. Today, when the world's economies have grown inextricably interdependent, the protectionist danger is especially great. Nixon, who proclaims himself a free trader, faces a new protectionist alliance that is more broadly based than those of the past. The alliance is armed with arguments of unprecedented sophistication, and it is ominously well attuned to some real trends in American thought and economic behavior...
...listed the first three ways Elizabeth and I had tried to get married legally, the judge, obviously hearing this for the first time, cut me off; Vogel leaped out of his chair objecting, but the judge refused to admit the evidence that any Western agent and slave trader would try to marry the woman he was kidnapping and he promptly adjourned the trial. Before I got in points four-through-seven I was being hustled down the backstairs in handcuffs and into the rolling coffin...
...Kellogg's cereal and Milk Duds candy boxes. Collections are diversified by trading at conventions or by mail. Some of the most valued cards have been found moldering in attics and garages. Some collectors run their own auctions, notifying fellow enthusiasts through monthly card magazines such as Trader Speaks and Who's Who in Card Collecting...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
Name of the Grain. Exports of top quality European wheat flour, for example, receive a subsidy equal to 80% of the world market price. Taking advantage of that, one enterprising German trader was convicted of making several hundred thousand dollars by exporting certified "finest wheat flour" to Switzerland and pocketing the subsidy. When EEC officials finally inspected a shipment, they discovered that the flour actually was a nonsubsidized mixture of cattle feed. Conversely, "cattle feed" imported into the Common Market duty-free often turns out to be a mixture of two high-tariff commodities, wheat flour and sugar...