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...since the Suez crisis, the Arabs have increased the power of their armies mightily. Egypt alone has received $1 billion in military hardware-tanks, planes and rockets-from Russia, and both Moscow and Peking have helped arm the Syrians. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have been able to beg and buy their share of power from the West, and Iraq has been getting guns from both sides. Yet Israel has been keeping pace with the Arabs in expanding its armed might, still believes that its army of 300,000 regulars and reservists can stand off all Arab forces combined. A main...
LIFE tried to buy foreign rights to the book, and even explored the overseas possibilities on Svetlana's behalf. Her U.S. lawyer, 77-year-old Edward S. Greenbaum, listened to the sums involved and then decided he could make a better deal by hiring a literary agent to negotiate with European publishers. As bids feverishly escalated, he was able to turn down an $850,000 offer from Italian Publisher Giorgio Mondadori for exclusive foreign rights-one of the largest prices ever offered in Europe for a book. By week's end Greenbaum had concluded lucrative agreements with publishers...
...York City and adjacent Nassau County, said Haddad, buy meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil) for $18.90 per 1,000, while Georgia's Fulton County (Atlanta) pays $62.40. New York City buys tetracycline at $25.95 a 1,000, but Chicago pays $50, Fulton County $95, while New York's Onondaga County (Syracuse) pays $90 for a slightly different form. The District of Columbia, buying through the Veterans Administration, equals New York's low prices in most cases and betters them in some. The armed forces do at least as well, buying in still greater quantities through the Defense Supply Agency...
...intercity passenger carrier, with a 102,181-mile route network covered by 5,422 buses, the Greyhound Corp. could presumably leave well enough alone with its slogan: "Leave the driving to us." But it hasn't. Over the past five years, Greyhound has reached off the highway to buy nine firms, set up a dozen more on its own. Among other things, it now leases locomotives and jetliners, runs tours, caters food, rents computers, writes insurance. And in Los Angeles last week, President Gerald H. Trautman promised that the company would continue "actively looking" for more new turns...
...will contribute 42%, the Common Market 23%, Canada 11%, Britain, Australia and Japan 5% each. Altogether, that aid comes to less than half of the grain the U.S. has been donating annually to such countries as India, Pakistan 'and Brazil. But Europe and Japan will have to buy their share for cash, thus increasing the world commercial market for wheat. Delegates also agreed on a new minimum world price of $1.73 a bushel for hard red winter wheat sold at Gulf Coast ports-23? a bushel above the existing floor, but only about 2? above today's actual...