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...read. As every reader knows, TIME circulates in almost every country in the world. Reader Martin L. Bartling Jr., a Knoxville (Tenn.) housebuilder, had this global fact impressed on him in a way that astounded him-as well as the Knoxville post office. Bartling is the builder of the $13,500 model home, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, that TIME told about in BUSINESS in the Oct. 27 issue. Hardly had the magazine reached subscribers when the mail began to pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Some builders did not bother...
...time he returned,* hot objections were rolling across the islands. Adams did not budge; concession or not, he said, "the federal government can levy its own income tax after five years and make it retroactive." Such a statement could easily scare off Refinery Builder St. Hilaire, and Jamaica did not take it quietly. Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Manley said that if the federal government even thinks about voiding Jamaican deals, "Jamaica would be forced to reconsider her position in regard to federation itself." Last week Manley's top political opponent, rabble-rousing Sir William Alexander Bustamante, put it even...
...Mary Gindhart Roebling, 52, was elected as a public governor of the American Stock Exchange, the first woman to reach a major exchange's top policymaking board. Widow of Siegfried Roebling (grandson of the Brooklyn Bridge builder), Mary Roebling took over her husband's job as director of the Trenton Trust Co. in 1936, became president a year later, is now both president and chairman. In her reign, the bank's assets have swelled from $17 million to more than $90 million...
Some of the hulks dredged up by U.N. salvagers and dumped in the shallows still jut from corners of Port Said harbor; a few weatherworn propaganda posters still flap from the city's walls, and the scarred stump of the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, torn down by mobs celebrating the departure of the last Anglo-French invaders, still stands at the canal entrance. Vastly more in evidence, as Egyptians prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week...
...Britain, filling out endless bureaucratic forms is accepted as inevitably as a bad cold, a bus queue or a summer holiday ruined by rain. But every so often the worm turns, and victims everywhere enjoy a victory against the common bureaucrat. Recently Builder Eric Neate. constructing a small factory at Andover in Hampshire, routinely sent a blueprint of the factory to the County Planning Committee. Complying with committee orders that all factories must have flower beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate...