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Devaluation Dangers. Despite the uproar, sterling recovered in the wake of Wilson's announcement to a healthy $2.79 1/16. Whether it would stay healthy was the question that international bankers were asking. They noted that such reforms as cuts in tourist allowances and overseas spending would take months to have any effect. What worried them most was that the key feature-the wage, price and dividend freeze-was voluntary, and the trade unions seemed reluctant to cooperate...
...night and you wake in a sweat...
Placed by history and circumstance in the vanguard of the technological revolution, the U.S. also found itself carrying the results of that revolution abroad through the accidents of history. It first displayed its wealth to the world when it was recognized as an international power in the wake of World War I. But it was not until after World War II that the U.S. really began to lead a worldwide march toward affluence. By then, it was abundantly equipped for the job. It had a wealth of natural resources, a scarcity of skilled labor that forced the pace of mechanization...
Schulberg, whose standard fee for a script is $100,000 and up, takes no money for his teaching chore, for which he volunteered after driving around Watts one night in the wake of the troubles. Shocked by the evidence of repression and neglect, the following week he asked the Westminster Neighborhood Association, which runs a number of adult education programs in Watts, if he could help. He was told that there were plenty of people hanging around the settlement house with nothing to do; maybe some of them could write...
...certainly does. The first-class passenger is deluged with free cocktails, champagne and steak-filet meals, offered a concert on earphones as well as movies. The stewardesses even wake people up to give them eyeshades for sounder sleeping. To woo frequent business travelers, American has a club for businessmen's secretaries, buys them dinners and takes them to the movies. Eastern sends secretaries flowers and seed packets...