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Merge & Modernize. At De Gaulle's behest, Economics Minister Michel Debre has begun to push a broad plan to energize industry, argues that "we have no choice but to become competitive." The government has granted $600 million in low-interest loans to steel firms on the condition that they merge and modernize. The government has also helped to bring about more than 50 corporate mergers this year, notably in the metals, textiles and electronics industries. Hoping to enlarge the capital supply and to make Paris a world financial center on the order of London or New York, the Cabinet...
...courage is undisputed. The sales tax enacted at his behest violated his 1962 campaign pledge, but he needed it to implement progressive programs. Rockefeller also bucked vociferous upstate-Republican opposition to push through New York's Medicaid program, an expansion of the 1965 Medicare Act on a statewide basis, which is a model for all states...
...Hampshire, retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, the most patent right-winger of the lot, has a good chance to capture the seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor Wesley Powell. Thyng opposed civil rights legislation and foreign aid and insisted that increased conventional bombing of military targets in North Vietnam would halt Hanoi's capacity...
...strike by 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists grounded carriers that fly 61½% of all U.S. airline passenger-miles, carry 70% of the nation's air mail, 73% of its air freight. At the behest of the Civil Aeronautics Board, six other trunk carriers and 13 regional airlines feverishly reshuffled schedules and added what extra flights they could to meet the demand for seats...
Fado is to Portugal what flamenco is to Spain, what the blues is to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1964). Yet, unlike those widely exported musical forms, fado has been taken abroad successfully by only one singer: Amália Rodrigues. Last week, at the behest of Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, she made her U.S. concert debut with the New York Philharmonic as part of its summer Promenades series. Singing fado in the rich expanse of Philharmonic Hall-with the audience sitting at café tables sipping champagne and munching Fritos-seemed as out of place as singing spirituals...