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...manufacturers have quietly agreed to pay some $200 million to set tle damage claims in more than 1,000 customer suits. Though the price seems high, it was cheap enough for keeping the cases out of the headlines and out of the courts, where settlements might well have proved costlier. Last week the first damage case did reach a court, and the outcome shocked the electric companies...
...terms of sophistication or selectivity. Whatever words they use, all agree that their business is being reshaped by a significant switch: in size and tempo, Europe's auto market is following the American way. Not only are Europeans buying more cars, but they are moving up to larger, costlier, more powerful models. Says John Andrews, Detroit-trained president of West Germany's Ford Taunus: "A few years ago, Europeans were primarily interested in basic transportation. Now they want styling, roominess, convenience and power...
...Endorsed, in the House Education and Labor Committee, the Administration's $962.5 million anti-poverty program by a party-line vote of 19 Democrats to 12 Republicans. Among the program's costlier features: $340 million to finance 90% of local projects that will attack such poverty-breeding misfortunes as illiteracy, lack of job skills, slums and health hazards; $190 million to establish a volunteer job corps for youths from 16 to 22; and $150 million for a work-training program to pay part of the employment costs of youths who must work to help their families...
...lift, President Johnson has appointed a seven-man board of directors, including former World Bank President Eugene Black and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, to advise him. The Government originally planned to put up 75% of the supersonic's estimated $1 billion development cost, but Black has recommended a costlier 90 to 10 split with the manufacturers...
...zero, 43 U.S. scientists will winter over in Antarctica this year. Though it costs the U.S. up to $200,000 to put a single researcher on the continent, the 50 independent projects they are working on (total budget: $27 million) may ultimately prove a more fruitful investment than far costlier space research. Staging area for U.S. forces in Antarctica is Christchurch, N.Z. There, ten times weekly during summer months, Navy transports with special ski-type landing gear take off for the seven-hour flight to McMurdo...