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With American aid, India recently bought 22 million condoms from Japan, and expects to buy another 50 million from the U.S. It is also constructing a plant in Kerala that will produce 270 million contraceptives a year by 1970. To make sure that all Indians get the message, the government will launch a nationwide "use condoms" advertising campaign. Making a pitch for the lucrative contract is another capitalistic enterprise-the U.S.'s J. Walter Thompson Co. (see U.S. BUSINESS). Explained one family-planning official: "We want the condom to be as well advertised as Coca-Cola...
Undaunted by all that, American Can is trying again. Last February the $1.4 billion-a-year U.S. company shelled out $3.3 million to buy 60% control of Liverpool-based Reads Ltd., Metal Box's only real competitor. Holding onto a 40% interest is the hoary textile-making firm of Courtaulds Ltd., which was soundly trounced by Metal Box after acquiring Reads in 1959. Under Courtaulds, Reads has turned profits on such lines as steel drums and paint cans, but lost heavily on food and beverage tins. With the arrival of American Can, the company is embarking on a fiveyear...
...country did the U.S. Government do more than "advise" its citizens to leave; civilian departees were expected to buy their own economy-class air tickets-and pay later if necessary. One major evacuation point was Beirut, where hundreds of Americans straggled in from Syria to join 3,000 Lebanon-based U.S. civilians, half of whom clustered on the campus of the American University. Each carried only one 44-Ib. bag, plus two blankets and 24 hours' worth of food. Many women showed up carrying small dogs in large handbags. With the city in blackout, there was a moment...
...Money markets were active. Parisians, as they usually do in times of crisis, lined up to buy French gold Napoleons. The value of the pound sterling fell because of the expectation that Britain, deprived of Middle East oil, would have to pay some of its $1.7 billion annual oil bill in the dollar-area markets of South America...
...rich but unscrupulous wheelchair-bound tycoon buy the U.S. presidency for his personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...