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...popular U.S. cocktails-martini, Manhattan, whisky sour and daiquiri. The first shipments will go to Connecticut and northern New York, and then the Calvert cocktails will be gradually introduced around the U.S. Sam Bronfman seems so smitten with the idea that Edgar may put out mixed drinks under the costlier Seagram label, which has always been Sam's pet trademark...
...expansion in Europe and Canada "through funds generated outside the U.S." Faced with the prospect of mandatory controls if this program fails, most U.S. businessmen abroad will probably borrow more from foreign bankers and transfer more of their foreign profits to the U.S. That will make for costlier operations and slower expansion overseas. It will also, by Government reckoning, cut the U.S. payments deficit from $3 billion last year to well under $2 billion this year-and to $500 million soon after...
Spain recently agreed to buy 70 F-5 jet fighters from Northrop Corp. for $47 million; the planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales...
...York and promoted Hong Kong products on his own wide travels. His new finishing plant reflects his belief that Hong Kong's textile industry must upgrade itself and diversify: instead of producing only basic fabrics, he insists, it must embrace a wide variety of quality and costlier finished goods. Tang's efforts have made him a millionaire many times over, but he is not awed by money. When he left China in 1948 to escape the Reds, he and his family left behind a fortune estimated at $50 million...
...playground for Manhattan's horsy set and later became one for baseball's horsehide set. But this is still nowhere near enough. For all the gripes by Negro intellectuals about the esthetic shortcomings of the projects, applications outnumber acceptances 9 to 1, and even in costlier developments like Lenox Terrace, a $40-a-room private venture, there is a long waiting list...