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...exactly 242 officers operating out of a once abandoned bunker and six trailers tucked away in a steamy corner of MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa. There the officers are drafting plans to combine Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine units that might be assigned to them in a crisis???up to 200,000 men in all?into an effective expeditionary force, and they are tackling their task with a zesty disrespect for bureaucratic tradition. Marine General P.X. Kelley, the R.D.F.'s first commander (he is about to be succeeded by Army Major General Robert Kingston), pared down lists...
...speed of the transition surprised the musical world and started speculation that Rudel had quarreled with City Opera's board of directors. The company has had some sour notes in recent years. A deep financial crisis???now successfully surmounted?threatened at one point to close the house. Performances have often been slipshod lately, the casting haphazard. Rudel, although tireless, has been away from the house more and more on conducting engagements; he has accepted the directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic beginning next fall...
...stench of cordite and the sour-sweet smell of tear gas?the incense of South Viet Nam's political crisis???was missing in Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. The frail, elegant hands of the Buddhist bonze who had ignited the trouble gestured?and the mobs went home, the air cleared. The crisis itself had not ended, but its course had been changed and channeled, sometimes subtly, sometimes imperiously, by one of South Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events...
...system is not working smoothly. The affluent nations of the West are bickering with each other over the system's inadequacies and how they should be corrected; the poor nations are complaining that the system works to their disadvantage. Britain's money problems?the pound has faced crisis after crisis???have forced the country into a recession. Charles de Gaulle has hit at the U.S. by exchanging for gold the dollars that France has acquired, thus helping to force the world's richest nation to cut back its spending abroad to stem the outflow of dollars. Such terms as gold...
Nowhere was this more visible than in the U.S., where both business and government frequently based their most impor tant economic actions on the need to become more competitive in world markets. The turning point of the year for the U.S. economy?the great steel crisis???seemed a peculiarly domestic fuss. But when U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough decided to raise steel prices $6 a ton less than a week after his company had signed its first noninflationary labor contract since the Korean war. he used foreign competition as a justification for his move. Overseas competitors, paying lower wages...
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