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What was it all about? Well, it was about a Waldorf banquet for U.S. Representative Charles A. Buckley, 72, Democratic boss of The Bronx. Buckley, best known in the House for his chronic absenteeism, is an old friend of Joe Kennedy's, was an active backer of Jack's presidential candidacy as early as 1957, looks fondly on all Kennedys-and with reason. It was therefore only natural that the President of the U.S. should dictate a telegram to be sent to Buckley in New York on the night of the dinner. It said: "We want to join...
...West Virginia to produce its new Merkalon synthetic fiber. (The U.S. Government welcomes Montecatini's settling in West Virginia, and the decision of Japan's Sekisui Chemical Co. to build a factory to make polystyrene foam in Hazelton. Pa., because they bring jobs to areas of chronic unemployment.) The French aluminum producer Pechiney bought control of New York's Howe Sound to gain an exotic-metals business, and the Japanese want Sheraton's Hawaiian hotel because they anticipate a rush of Hawaiian tourist business from affluent Japanese...
Furthermore, with the conquest of infectious diseases, the incidence of acute illness has declined relative to that of chronic illnesses which require prolonged care and often cause permanent disability. In addition, doctors are more aware than ever of the relations between physiological and mental illness. Illness involving psychological maladies is not susceptible to quick cures; instead, it entails high and continued expense...
Fish Meal & Cement. The Japanese are less frightened than U.S. investors by Latin America's chronic political and economic upheavals. Having learned to live at home in the shadow of Red China, they look patronizingly on Castro's menacing. The unnerving gyrations of inflated pesos and cruzeiros also do not trouble them much, since they have been through the same thing in Southeast Asia. Most of all, the Japanese sense that Latin America, which has a more substantial middle class than any of the world's other developing areas, offers the best potential export market for Japan...
...begin a visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif...