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...Markets are too small. The U.S. market, the world's biggest, is more than six times as large as that of any one European country. With that base for mass production and sales, U.S. corporations dwarf most of their European competitors. With few exceptions, European companies are still chopped up into national units. Despite the Common Market, their managers have so far been unable to overcome disparate systems of law and taxation to merge into multinational European companies-such as a scarcely dreamed-of Fiat-Volkswagen-Citroën combine...
...doubts-arise in the equally notorious case of Richard Speck, the accused killer of eight Chicago student nurses, whose Feb. 6 trial has been shifted 160 miles southwest to Peoria. To be sure, that city was once called "Nowheresville, U.S.A." But it now boasts the U.S.'s biggest exporter of machinery (Caterpillar Tractor Co.), and welcomes more foreign visitors than almost any U.S. town of its size (pop. 133,000). What makes Peoria a better place to try Speck than Chicago...
Among those who cheered Kennedy's decision to build the world's biggest and best supersonic transport was Vice President Lyndon Johnson. But as President, Johnson's enthusiasm has noticeably waned. He properly played a passive part in the bitter 30-month competition between Boeing and Lockheed to build the airframe and between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to make the engines. But in finally declaring Boeing and G.E. to be the winners, the President also withheld for an indefinite period the money they will need to move full speed ahead in building prototypes of the newly...
...biggest magazine dealers on the East Coast are 40 feet apart and they're both sold out," Joe Nini said yesterday, as his assistant called distributors for more copies of this week's Look...
...economic strain, a major factor in the downfall of Ludwig Erhard's government two months ago, is even more visible today. More than at any other time since the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) transformed war-torn West Germany into Europe's biggest trading power, television and automobile manufacturers are stuck with unsold stock, building cranes stand idle, and workers are uneasy about their jobs. The nation's economic growth, which has averaged almost 6% a year since 1950, dropped to barely 3% in 1966, is likely to dip to an icy 2% this year. "The economy," warns Fritz...