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...Viet Nam will not convince anyone that we are right, but will only justify the critics of America who say that we have nothing to offer the world except technical know-how and multiplied "overkill" to obliterate large sections of our globe. Our vital interests lie right in our backyard, with Herculean labors right at our own feet-labors to make Americans secure, free and prosperous...
...corner plot. Assuming that she was simply waiting until the price was right, Macy's went ahead with plans for a circular stadium-sized store whose perimeter would cut a small corner off the far end of the widow's backyard. Not even $200,000 could budge Mrs. Sondek, and today the store stands just months away from completion with a 5-ft.-deep, 21-ft.-wide notch in its otherwise unbroken facade. The notch not only cost Macy's an extra $50,000 in building costs, but also some 15 parking spaces (the outside ring...
...Japanese rank among the world's most energetic-and peripatetic-salesmen. They have made Southeast Asia a virtual backyard for their products, have long had an important place in the U.S. market, have moved strongly into Latin America. Now they are busy tackling an even more challenging area: Africa. From Cape Town to Cairo, indefatigable Japanese are scrambling over the continent, taking orders, building plants and signing trade pacts. They are making TV sets in Ghana, spinning textiles in Nigeria, galvanizing iron in Ethiopia, building a nylon mill in Kenya and assembling Nissan and Toyota cars in South Africa...
...farm-equipment makers, who for years have concentrated on building up a $700 million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
Across the U.S., some 20 courageous developers have started New Towns. But the unanswered question still is: Will the independent U.S. homeowner be willing to sacrifice a part of his own backyard for the sake of more spacious community facilities? Will enough companies move out of the big cities into the New Town's industrial parks? For indications of how the future will go, the New Town most closely watched by architects and developers alike is Reston, Va. It is probably the farthest along, and architects agree that it is superbly designed. Says Architect Philip Johnson: "Reston...