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Foreign carmakers obviously do not relish the new U.S. competition-especially in Western Europe, where 109 automakers already vie for the business. France's Pierre Dreyfuss, president of state-owned Renault, pleaded with Detroit not to make a bug-sized car for Europe in direct competition with Renault, Volkswagen and Italy's gnatty Fiat. Henry Ford called Dreyfuss' plea "disgraceful," and is going ahead with plans for a Volkswagen-sized Ford, now dubbed the Cardinal...
Fidel Castro's offer to swap rebel prisoners for heavy-duty tractors has raised a strange debate, in which every speaker seems to vie for irrelevancy...
...painters use so bright a palette or so bold a brush and still achieve so sorrowful a mood. Purplish blues lie alongside acid greens; reds and yellows vie for attention yet do not seem to clash. Nor do the ragged rhythms of the paintings ever get out of control. Tension mounts in Jacob Lawrence's paintings, but the threatened disorder never takes place...
WILLIAM C. DA VIE...
...Disappearing Boom." But the Economist was not alone in its concerned view from abroad. The French financial weekly, La Vie Française, lamented that "for more than a year, it has been evident that a real 'boom' in the American economy is impossible." The London Financial Times predicted that "this year seems fated to go down in history as the year of the disappearing boom." Giro Koike, senior managing director of Japan's Yamaichi Securities Co., said that many leaders of Japanese industry, who are watching the U.S. economy, feel that the U.S. has entered...