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...finished products will be hit harder. This includes high-duty products that compete directly with Europe's fastest-growing industries, such as finished chemicals and steel, machinery and electrical equipment, cars and trucks. But there should always be a brisk market for U.S. specialties, ranging from automated gear to wash-and-wear fabrics. In this year's first quarter. Common Market imports of U.S. office accounting and computing machines more than doubled, to $23 million. Says the Chase Manhattan Bank: "Those U.S. exports will fare best that are unique -in performance, design or cost...
Most noticeable in the Peace Corps office is the people. They don't stroll through the halls, they walk with a brisk stride, if not a canter. They type furiously, answer telephones at a fantastic rate, and always seem to be smiling...
Died. Silliman Evans Jr., 36, brisk, self-assured publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, which he took over from his late father at 30; of a heart attack; while cruising on Tennessee's Old Hickory lake. A printer's devil at eight and the Air Transport Command's youngest World War II pilot at 18, influential Democrat Evans backed Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, was recently appointed to the Johnson-led President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...
...subject, who proved courteously cooperative-but busy. The very fact that made General Taylor cover-worthy this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general likes to start his day at Fort Myer, Va., with a mile and a quarter of "walking." Rinehart tagged along, trying to scribble a note or two on the run. "As we burst out of the cemetery," reported Rinehart, "the general...
What else will supply a fresh lift for business? Economists are banking on help from increased Government spending, which will rise by some $2 billion this year and even faster next year. But if the 1961 recovery is to be brisk, something more is needed. For that extra thrust, economists are looking hopefully toward the free-spending American consumer...