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Delphic Marxism. In the past, most nonmilitary research was collected piecemeal from various study centers. The one really systematic attempt to keep scholarly pace involved science; translated editions of U.S. technical journals were distributed regularly to Soviet specialists. The official attitude on other subjects altered two years ago, when the Communist Party Central Committee severely criticized the state of Soviet social science research. As a result of this turnabout, Russian specialists began taking a new look at dozens of U.S. phenomena-from the rebellion of youth, which has its parallels in Russia, to the glut of automobile traffic, which...
...business world is something like the student-worker upheaval of last May and June. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Europe's largest-and by any measure its proudest -glass manufacturer, was fighting for its corporate life. Still more astonishing, it was battling against an American-style takeover attempt by a much smaller competitor, Boussois Souchon Neuvesel. Last week the great glass battle ended with Saint-Gobain overpowering the upstart by sheer financial force...
Frontal Attack. Superficially, BSN's attempt looked absurd. Saint-Gobain produces 22% of the world's plate glass, has extensive interests in chemicals, nuclear energy, cardboard and paper. The company has annual sales of glass and other products totaling $1 billion, almost five times BSN's. But Saint-Gobain's current reputation glitters less than its history. Under the presidency of Count Arnaud de Vogüé, 64, the company lagged behind BSN in adopting the float-glass process that revolutionized glassmaking a decade ago. On the other hand, BSN, which was formed when two firms...
...battle itself has put French businessmen on notice that the old days of secrecy, silence and short-changed stockholders have faded. From now on, even the most tradition-steeped French managements will have to produce results in the profit column or face the possibility of another such flamboyant takeover attempt...
Police speculate that the murder took place sometime Tuesday night. Police dogs were sent to the area to see if they could pick up a scent. Officers went through the building talking to residents in an attempt to learn if anyone had heard unusual noises or seen a stranger on the premises...