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...Weapons. The company is now looking inward as well as Eastward. Krupp last year reorganized its research establishment, increasing its staff to 1,500, and put automation and nuclear research at the top of the priority list. It is building trucks and air transports for the new German army-though it still produces no weapons. There are suggestions that Krupp may change its corporate form. The present sole owner, shy, retiring Alfried Krupp, 57, merely presides over the firm, leaving the energetic, extroverted Beitz to run the company through a streamlined four-man Direktorium of his handpicked aides. Alfried shows...
...American Library, not Pocket Books, that paid $500,000 for the paperback reprint rights to Kathleen Winsor's new novel, Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West [March 12]. N.A.L. also published Miss Winsor's Forever Amber, Star Money, The Lovers and America with Love in paperback...
...forecaster wasted no time issuing a warning, and trouble came right on schedule. For ten days last month a wind from Hawaii blew across the Northern California coast, dropping its moisture when forced to climb over the mountains. Heavy rain fell, in some places 35 inches. Eastward all the way to Idaho, the high mountains got the worst drenching; the warm rain melted accumulated snow, adding another ten inches to the foaming runoff. Before the ill wind from Hawaii stopped blowing, it had started disastrous floods that cost nearly 50 lives and almost a billion dollars in damage...
Western capitalists have lately become so eager to deal with the Communists that the question of trade has taken on a new dimension: instead of merely selling goods, Western businessmen are sending whole factories and generous credits eastward. Western Europe is leading the trend, but last week the U.S. also shuffled itself into some important East-West deals...
Much of Russia's anger at China's pretensions to lead Asia and Africa mingles with immemorial fears of the invading "Golden Horde" and "the Yellow Peril." Russia's course eastward to the Pacific has collided with China's course northward to the empty spaces of Siberia. Khrushchev and all Russians must be deeply worried by the thought that in 1970, they may be living next door to hundreds of millions of hostile Chinese who by then will probably have nuclear weapons...