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While the stock market has been drifting sidewise, another exchange has been moving at a furious pace. At Chicago's Board of Trade, biggest and busiest commodity market in the world, pit brokers have perspired through two weeks of record business. On one day, they traded an alltime-high 270 million bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybeans-an amount almost three times greater than last year's average. Twice the market's opening had to be delayed an hour in order to catch up on paper work, something that had never happened before...
...resembles a Stakhanovite squirrel. He is a member of five committees and, at latest count, 19 subcommittees, and the chances are that he knows more about what is going on in each of them than any other member, including the chairman. Michigan's Romney refers to him as "the busiest man in the Senate," and the label fits. Much of his time goes into what he calls "our unseen work": the unheralded, rarely acknowledged chore of shepherding a bill through subcommittee, committee, and finally the full chamber...
...Europe's third-busiest port (after Rotterdam and London), factories and tank farms are sprouting amid ancient cathedrals and guild halls. Foreign companies have invested $750 million in new plants since 1964, plan some $500 million more over the next three years in a city whose population (654,500) is smaller than New Orleans. This month General Motors laid the cornerstone for a $100 million factory-G.M.'s second in Antwerp-that will be the company's main European assembly point, employ more than 6,000 Belgians and turn out 300,000 Opels a year. Last...
When Charles de Gaulle was born there 75 years ago, Lille was one of the busiest cities in Europe: a churning, chimneyed conglomeration of machine shops, railway yards, textile mills and candy factories that dominated the French industrial north. But as De Gaulle grew in stature, Lille declined. Last week, when le grand Charles returned to his birthplace on the first political tour of his new administration, he found a city hard hit by unemployment and recession. He also found a frosty reception for a onetime favorite...
...lost their sting. In their most successful attack of the war on an American installation, they launched a daring nighttime hit-and-run mortar barrage against crowded Tan Son Nhut airbase three miles north of Saigon, which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets, and destroyed four parked aircraft and damaged 29. The Viet Cong escaped without...